Sailor Quotes - Page 10

• I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

  Keith Coogan

  Years, Motorcycle, Quitting

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• Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivation, Eye, May

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• Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

  Leah Remini

  Men, Mouths, Charming

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• If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Dashiell Hammett (2013). “The Hunter and Other Stories”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

  John Fowles

  Men, Tree, Evolution

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• To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Politics, Insult

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• The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.

  Tom Feeney

  Differences, Political, Spending

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• Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

  Bob Hope

  Marine, Naval, Vessel

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• In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.

  Charles Babbage

  Artist, Profound, Age

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

  Arthur Laffer

  Money, Congress

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• There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dream, Men, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.212, Diderot Publishing

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• I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Sea, Guidance

  George Eliot (2007). “Middlemarch”, p.436, Collector's Library

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• Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.

  Rich Mullins

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Home, Air, Sea

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• Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.

  Zeina

  Believe, Ocean, Sea

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• In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

  Brian Blessed

  Submarines, Alive, Arctic

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Wind, Sailing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster

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• The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

  Emily Dickinson

  Needles, Knows

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.175, Harvard University Press

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• My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Tattoo, New York, Years

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

  Hal Moore

  World, Too Much, Sometimes

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• When I was drawing this, I thought I’d put together Sailor Saturn and Sailor Chibi-Moon in a pair. Then I followed it with the Sailor Quartet. One of these days I’m going to put this team together into the manga. What a weird thing that would be. Anyway, here’s the six.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Team, Moon, Drawing

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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, Sailing

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

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• Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Good Friend, Land

  "Bob Dylan Unleashed". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Islands, Water

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• Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it
  to Sailors.

  James Lawrence

  Able, Navigation, Easy

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