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  • I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree. -- David A. Siegel
  • [on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it. -- Johnny Depp
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  • From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British. -- Mordechai Vanunu
  • Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. -- Richard Branson
  • For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy. -- Ivana Trump
  • Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht. -- Jimmy Cannon
  • Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. -- David Lee Roth
  • I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht. -- Anita Loos
  • As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. -- Coco Chanel
  • As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything. -- Conor Oberst
  • The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. -- Gore Vidal
  • A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet. -- Nicholas Negroponte
  • The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat. -- Lewis Francis Herreshoff
  • The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht. -- Cynthia Heimel
  • The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew. -- Mark Forsyth
  • Hearing politicians tell us we can't afford a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't afford a diet. In no other context do people talk about paying for money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. -- Ann Coulter
  • I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. -- Chloe Sevigny
  • Yes, money has been a little tight lately. But, at the end of my life, when I'm sitting on my yacht, am I gonna be thinking about how much money I have? No. I'm going to be thinking about how many friends I have, and my children, and my comedy albums. I mean, I have a yacht, so I obviously did pretty well money-wise. -- Michael Scott
  • We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of dollars, more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. But at the same time, millions of people are struggling to feed their families or put a roof over their heads or find the money to go to a doctor. -- Bernie Sanders
  • In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers. -- Craig Brown
  • Mark My Words Jack Frost...Before I Die I Am Going To Buy A Yacht And Sail Off To A Nice Warm & Sunny Paradise. Freeze And Abuse Someone's Else's Rear End...You Been Warned. -- Timothy Pina
  • My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo. -- Dorothy Hamill
  • In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. -- Bill Dedman
  • I'm a big yachting fan. -- David Cunliffe
  • Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty. -- Charles Simonyi
  • Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Before I liked cars, yachts, having a door to lock, and you. :) -- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  • Rekindle the joy yachtsman that lies deep inside of you; share magic crystals and watch it grow! -- Isabel Yosito
  • I don't stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami. -- Neil Patrick Harris
  • I have high-tech tastes. If I had $100 million, I would spend it on research equipment rather than a yacht. -- Stephen LaBerge
  • I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side." Three wide smiles"Oh shut up. -- Kathy Reichs
  • I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. -- Ferran Adria
  • The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. -- G.K. Chesterton
  • If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. -- Elizabeth Banks
  • She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel. -- Alasdair Gray
  • I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it. -- Jenson Button
  • I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury. -- Pierre Dukan
  • Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht... -- Francine Pascal
  • Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks. -- Anne Sexton
  • Sunday - the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors. -- Sylvia Plath
  • Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Ah, the Gilligan's Island conundrum: why were the Howells on a crappy three-hour excursion cruise in the first place, when they could've been on their diamond-encrusted yacht? And why did they bring so many clothes?" -Riley -- Carolyn Parkhurst
  • These were strange caricatures of human beings, weirdly inflated, their breasts enormous spheres, held in place by string bikinis with cups the size of fourteen-meter yacht spinnakers. Their legs were elongated too, their toes pointed straight downward into high-heeled shoes steeper than double black-diamond ski runs. -- Peter Sagal
  • Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work. -- Tracy Letts
  • The incident emphasizes once more that beauty is something to be found, rather than passively encountered, that it requires us to pick up on certain details, to identify the whiteness of a cotton dress, the reflection of the sea on the hull of a yacht, or the contrast between the color of a jockey's coat and his face. -- Alain de Botton
  • As you know, the International Poker Tour, by its own admission, knows very little about poker games, one of which ended tragically last week when an IPT-sanctioned tournament aboard a yacht in Australia accidentally used tarot cards instead of playing cards. That's right, it's true! Apparently no one noticed until someone laid down a full house and the dealer died. -- Elle Lothlorien
  • Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana -- Michael Grant
  • Sometimes between lunch and dinner, when there's a lull, Jill and Shaniqua and I will sit around and fantasize about what we'd do if a REAL celebrity walked into the place, like Chad Michael Murray (although we've gone off him a bit since his divorce) or Jared Padalecki, or even Prince William (you never know. He could have gotten his yacht lost, or whatever.) -- Meg Cabot
  • I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht. -- Dhani Jones
  • Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one. -- J. P. Morgan
  • Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. -- David Lee Roth
  • We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there -- Felix Sabates
  • At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht. -- Milton Berle
  • I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini. -- Martin Freeman
  • I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge. -- Gautam Singhania
  • You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht. -- Chad Harbach
  • People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! -- David Lee Roth
  • I am not a multimillionaire. I dont own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple. -- Ferran Adria
  • Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.' -- John Caudwell
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  • I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht. -- John Caudwell
  • Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'. -- Michael Palin
  • I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean. -- Action Bronson
  • There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have. -- Elon Musk
  • If I ever complain to an agent about anything, he always has a pained look on his face, like, "How can you be so ungrateful? Why, Mick, I just named my yacht after you!" -- Mickey Rooney
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