{"quotes":[{"text":"I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.","author":"Rachel McAdams","tags":["love","boat","sailing "],"id":8110,"author_id":"Rachel+McAdams"},{"text":"You should seriously get a job planning dates for The Bachelor.","author":"Nicki Elson","tags":["boat","chicago","contemporary-romance","date","datenight","funny","love","romance"],"id":9841,"author_id":"Nicki+Elson"},{"text":"What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.","author":"Saim .A. Cheeda","tags":["aimless","alone","band","boat","brothers","camaraderie","companionship","drifting","friendship","fulfillment","gratifying","happiness","life","lost","merry","sail","sea","setting-sail","ship"],"id":10039,"author_id":"Saim+.A.+Cheeda"},{"text":"You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.","author":"Kelli Jae Baeli","tags":["awareness","boat","futility","sinking","water","wisdom"],"id":10391,"author_id":"Kelli+Jae+Baeli"},{"text":"Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["ambitions","bad-friends","boat","discredit","drill","drill-hole","evil-friends","fake","fake-friends","false","false-friends","food-for-thought","friends","hole","hypocrites","impact","israelmore-ayivor","leak","legacies","legacy","negative-friends","people","pretenders"],"id":21859,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Get me in here. Get me in here now!' I order. I have to get out of the swamp before it happens again.But it does.I feel it before I see it. Dozens of thick, razor-sharp needles pierce my right leg, sinking into my skin. It hurts like nothing I've felt before, and a strangled scream of pain escapes me.Babette whips her head around, the motor forgotten. 'Rylan! What is it!'Get me out! GET ME OUT!' I scream. Fearfully, I look over my shoulder, but seconds later I wish I hadn't as the attacker comes to the surface. It has a scaly body, sharp claws, feral eyes, and a long, ugly, sneering snout that's clamped around my leg.Melanie identifies it with a shriek. 'GATOR!","author":"Colleen Boyd","tags":["alligator","attack","babette","boat","fear","gator","get-me-out-of-here","melanie","rylan-forester","swamp"],"id":29072,"author_id":"Colleen+Boyd"},{"text":"I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able to see. It makes me grateful there is only so much I can see, and I am left mostly with questions. Grateful, also, that hope is not a reasonable thing. Though I have seen my share of darkness, I am spared perceiving much of it. And here is why I hope beyond a reasonable doubt: I think that as the darkness grows, it makes the dim lights that are left seem brighter. And the darker it gets, the brighter the light appears, until it is so luminous, eventually, even falling shadows are filled with it.","author":"Brian K. Friesen","tags":["boat","boating","boats","fiction","fiction-novel","fiction-novels","literary-fiction","literary-fiction-","liveaboard","liveaboards","nautical-fiction","ooligan","ooligan-press","oregon-writers","portland","portland-oregon","sailboat","sailboats","sailing"],"id":30375,"author_id":"Brian+K.+Friesen"},{"text":"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["boat","frozen-lake","goal","human-beings","humans","humans-humanity","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","lake","lakes","lucky","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","mind","mind","mind","target","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":47024,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine - It's the bottom I guess we forgot.","author":"Shel Silverstein","tags":["boat","relationship"],"id":52416,"author_id":"Shel+Silverstein"},{"text":"A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["boat","break-out","feeling-free","free","murat-ildan","port","port","storm","storm","storms","turkish-writers","turkish-writers"],"id":58407,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}