Sailing Quotes - Page 17

• There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

  Joyce Brothers

  Thinking, Giving, Crafts

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• My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Soul, Far Away, My Soul

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1860). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.409

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• Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting With the verdure-vested ground; Now like swallows o'er a river Gliding low with quivering pinion, Now aloft in ether sailing "Leisurely as summer cloud;" Rising now, anon descending, Swift and bright as shooting stars, Thus we travel glad and free.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Summer, Stars, Clouds

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.261

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• Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Anchors, Sea

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Dream, Fate

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• Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

  Fernando Pessoa

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, pp. 133, 262, 1982.

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• Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Whales, World

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 43

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• I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

  Charles Darwin

  Hate, Men, Ships

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.478, Broadview Press

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• Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.

  William Booth

  Half Time, Goes On, World

  "The Risks". The War Cry, December 20, 1884.

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• When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.

  Alexander Blok

  Blood, Land, Rivers

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• I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought us closer together. I think it had to do with shooting an episode last season at a school. The students swarmed around him, and I'm walking along and feeling like yesterday's lunch. I was saying that was hard to deal with sometimes and he said, "Stephanie, you can go for it! All you have to do is play sexy." It was a nice chat, but the tabloids took it and made it out that I was jealous. I'm not jealous.

  Stephanie Zimbalist

  Sexy, Fun, Nice

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• I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Hands, Trying, Boat

  "Moby (No Last Name Given)". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2014.

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Hurt, Fighting, Gun

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• So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it's terrible and amazing stuff.

  Bill Murray

  Rip, Islands, Laughing

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• Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Sports, Growing Up

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• Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Team, London Olympics

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• Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52

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• Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught
  In schools, some graduate of the field or street,
  Who shall become a master of art,
  An admiral sailing the high seas of thought
  Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet
  For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, School, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

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• Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

  Etty Hillesum

  Ocean, Desire, Safe

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

  Peggy Noonan

  Boredom, Apathy, Sides

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

  William Gilmore Simms

  Moon, Sea, Mind

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• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Baby

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• I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Rights, Wind

  "Morgan Freeman has taste for clean energy". Interview with Adam Spangler, www.nbcnews.com. November 13, 2007.

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