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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

— Malcolm Bradbury

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

— George William Curtis

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

— Amelia Barr

I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

— Garrett Neff

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

— Wilbur Ross

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

— Patrick Stewart

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

— Kenneth Grahame

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

— Fred Hoyle

Ships are expendable; the whales are not.

— Paul Watson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

— Helmut Sohmen