Sailing Quotes

It's not always smooth sailing.

— Nelly Korda

“don't just sit there sail something!”

— Chery Fee

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

— Anonymous

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

— Alexander Dale Oen

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

— Sterling Hayden

“Now comes good sailing.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Acting has not been a smooth sailing journey.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

when you lose your sails, row.

— Karen White

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.

— Ralph Washington Sockman

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

— Buzzy Trent

“In the stream of life, you row your boat alone.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

— Ted Turner

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

— Whoopi Goldberg

“Just because I stay calm, doesn't mean that I have no wind in my sails.”

— Anthony t hincks

Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class

— Buzzy Trent

What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

— Marita Golden

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

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Craig Ferguson

“Now I wished for my boy Xury, and the long boat with the shoulder of mutton sail, with which I sailed above…

— Daniel Defoe

I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like…

— Aileen Wuornos

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

— Billy Rose

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the…

— Humphrey Bogart

Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos…

— Rick Riordan

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers…

— Jean Genet

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination…

— Jacob Bronowski

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…

— David Letterman

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what…

— Larry Ellison

“But in a gale, the silent machinery of a sailing-ship would catch not only the power, but the wild and exulting voice…

— Joseph Conrad

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it,…

— Andrew Rayner

Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the…

— William Booth

We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with…

— John Musker

“I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and…

— Eugene O'Neill

“…she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and robbed of colour, she saw…

— Virginia Woolf

“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark…

— Gene Wolfe