The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and shit! They don’t bloody tell you that!” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Life's like sailing. You better enjoy the journey instead of just waiting to reach the destination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“you don’t have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat—drift on faith for a… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To… — Thomas Lovell Beddoes Copy Share Image
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Just to try. The smooth surface resists, resists, and erupts in my mouth: seeds, juice, acid, blood of a perfect household. The… — Sandra Beasley Copy Share Image
When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say our relationship is always smooth sailing. In a fun sort of way, this publicizing of some feud has brought… — Stephanie Zimbalist Copy Share Image
“Huge waves, a mile from crest to crest, roared down upon the pygmies that were to be their prey; sometimes the entire… — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other.… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game. — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else. — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes Copy Share Image
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze.… — Homer Copy Share Image
I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“crossing the Atlantic under sail remains one of the most fulfilling ways possible to spend a month or so of your precious… — John Kretschmer Copy Share Image
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out." — Francis Chichester Copy Share Image
“When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.” — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from… — Lewis Francis Herreshoff Copy Share Image
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Adjust your sails whenever necessary — SHy BOy Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I can't wait for the oil wells to run dry, for the last gob of black, sticky muck to come oozing out… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
