Sailing Quotes - Page 12

• Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Bud, Elements

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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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• You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Thinking, Race

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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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• 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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• Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Wind

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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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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• 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 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’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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• I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

  Alvin Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Journey

  "Alvin Martin: 'Scousers and cockneys get on. It's the mickey-taking'". Interview With Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2011.

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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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• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Sea

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• As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Boys

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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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• 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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• What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Rivers

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• Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

  Melissa Walker

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind Blowing

  Melissa Walker (2012). “Unbreak My Heart”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wall

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  People, Darkness, Life Is

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• I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.

  Jon Glaser

  Smooth Sailing, Community, Causes

  "Jon Glaser: The Man Behind The Masks". Interview with Austin Nelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 17, 2012.

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