“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
“Sinking faster than a boat without a hull.”
Richard Ashcroft (1971) English singer-songwriter
Sonnet
Urban Hymns (1997)
“I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.”
January 1979.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Standup Comic (1999)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Letter to Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (9 March 1877), as quoted in G. Cecil, The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury. Volume II, p. 130
1870s
“Carter in the office, Take notes when I'm talkin', Smooth as a cruise boat floats when I'm walkin.”
Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman
Back on My Grizzy
Official Mix tapes, Da Drought 3 (2007)