The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
A Father Is Neither An Anchor To Hold Us Back Nor A Sail To Take Us There But A Guiding Light Whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in… — Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he… — Homer Copy Share Image
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds. — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The seemingly impossible is not the path of the least resistance, but definitely the most rewarding one. Believe that it’s going to… — Suzanne van der Veeken Copy Share Image
I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose single… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I wish I had learned to sail sooner in ministry rather than rowing so hard.” I immediately thought of the way I… — Jackie Kendall Copy Share Image
Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time… — Napoleon On Robert Fulton's Steamship Copy Share Image
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal.… — Hobart Alter Copy Share Image
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. — William Falconer Copy Share Image
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner Copy Share Image
You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea… — Helge Ingstad Copy Share Image
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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