Sail Quotes - Page 24

• Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Growing Up, Inspiration

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

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• If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

  Plato

  Law, Giving, Office

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hate, Past, Greed

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Land, Doe

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• I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, She is gone. Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, She is gone, there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, Here she comes! That is dying.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Morning, Ocean, Loss

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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• The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Horse, Distance, Men

  "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.

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• O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sea, Names, Snow

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.188

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• "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."

  Evelyn Waugh

  Running, Art, Morning

  "Black Mischief". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1932.

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• A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

  John Keats

  Stars, Long, Imagination

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 8 October 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 170

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• I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Character, Sea

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• I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Swans, Ships

  'Old Ships' (1915)

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• It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.

  Wes Walz

  Adversity, Race, Wind

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• We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

  Wes Walz

  Team, Fall, Adversity

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• All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

  Maria Konnikova

  Taken, Missing, Mind

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

  Noel Coward

  War, Pride, Loss

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.346, A&C Black

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• If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

  Claudio Ranieri

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessing, House, Atheism

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• I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition.

  Pantha du Prince

  Intelligent, Ideas, Giving

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• Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

  William Penn

  Judgment, Given, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
  light chariot, and establish love.
  [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
  Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

  Ovid

  Art, Moving, Light

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• Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Islands, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

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• Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Travel, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.365, Рипол Классик

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• Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Sea Breeze, Water

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.126

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