Sailing Quotes - Page 12

• That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Sea, Dancing, Leader

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• If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.

  Pete Goss

  Too Late, Tomorrow, Ifs

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• A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his face. His troops hit the ground. When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up. He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?" He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Feet, Light

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• Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders.

  Lev Grossman

  Queens, Trying, World

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.353, Penguin

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• Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hurt, Mad, Water

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “The Dharma Bums”, p.254, Penguin UK

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• Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

  Yip Harburg

  Inspirational, Funny, Moon

  'It's Only a Paper Moon' (1933 song; music by Harold Arlen)

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• I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

  Alexander Wang

  Inspirational, Funny, Sitting

  "Alexander Wang Gang". Interview with Diane Von Furstenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.

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• ...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.

  Tove Jansson

  Inspirational, Funny, Oatmeal

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• Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Hope

  Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (2003). “Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet”, J P Tarcher

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• Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it.” Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. “I put him at the top of the list.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Real, Taken, Hadrian

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• They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

  Craig Ferguson

  Inspirational, Funny, Father

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• I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cat, Challenges, Chandeliers

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

  Cressida Cowell

  Reaching

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• Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .

  Georges Besancon

  Art, Space, Sky

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• They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

  Gertrude Bacon

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

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• Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Princess, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.
 Such moments are most desirable, 
for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. 
This is detachment -- 
when the old is over and the new has not yet come. 
If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, 
but there is really nothing to be afraid of. 
Remember the instruction: 
Whatever you come across -- go beyond.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mean, Soul, May

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• If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Wind, Port

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• Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, Islands, Sea

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.320, Scholastic Inc.

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

  Martin Ryle

  Inspirational, Funny, Two

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• Keep your hand on the helm.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Hands

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• Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Patient

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• One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands.

  Heikki Luoma

  Race, Hands, Trans

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