Sailing Quotes - Page 13

• The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

  Herman Melville

  Games, Long, Sailor

  Herman Melville (1962). “Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• 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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• Barack Obama is putting his team together to take over the Administration. So far, he's got his mother-in-law, who is going to be living with him, and they are talking about Hillary for Secretary of State. You have your mother-in-law and Hillary Clinton. Sounds like smooth sailing to me.

  David Letterman

  Mother, Team, Talking

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• The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.

  Mary Roach

  Latin, Space, Greek

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  Interview with Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.

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• I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.

  Temple Grandin

  Inspirational, Funny, Animal

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• Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, Riding

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

  Ernesto Bertarelli

  Kids, Lakes, Wife

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Towns, Sun

  'The Three Fishers'

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• The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Past, Games

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sea, Childhood, Risk

  "Paulo Coelho: 'Today we are proud of being Brazilians'". Interview, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2010.

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• Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

  Bob Bitchin

  Attitude, Adventure, Differences

  Bob Bitchin (2006). “Sailing Life”, p.119, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

  Woody Allen

  Soccer, Thinking, Games

  "Woody Allen: 'The Whole Thing Is Tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.

  John Moffitt

  Ocean, Land, Upset

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• I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lakes, Wind, Sea

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.907, Delphi Classics

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• Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

  David Crosby

  Father, Home, Remember

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• When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

  David Crosby

  Santa Barbara, Years, Sea

  FaceBook post by David Crosby from Jun 13, 2013

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• I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like that. It is about egoism. When you are egoistic enough you avoid such things. You become an incurable individualist and in that case you are sailing in your own sea anyway. What is very enjoyable for the individualist is to find this kind of "happy spaces" to be in and to live in.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Cutting, Sea

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense to me, but for them, it was mind-boggling. Likewise, they could play stuff with relative ease that I never could have. If there was something lost in translation melodically, it wouldn't work at all - we'd just be 17 people in a giant room staring awkwardly at each other. When that happened, I'd go home, figure out what was wrong, fix it, and then return to smooth sailing.

  Zach Condon

  Writing, Home, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sweet, Swans, Two

  Heinrich Heine (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Powerful, Commitment, Order

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• Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Care, Soap, Stamps

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.88, Macmillan

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• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Space

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Team, Creativity

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• For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Sea, Finals, Crafts

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