“Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen. — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale… — Bernard Cornwell 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
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sailing is in the same vein as horse riding. There's a beauty to it; it's an elegant sport. You have to employ… — Pier Luigi Loro Piana Copy Share Image
I brag like hell when I'm confident of what I'm doing. Back when I was sailing ships for a living, I would… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
In typical sailing races a long time ago, you'd come in and go out, and the first thing you'd do is probably… — James Spithill Copy Share Image
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“On September 6, 1522, a battered ship appeared on the horizon … A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the strange… — Laurence Bergreen Copy Share Image
“I wrapped my fingers around the first light I saw and felt all at once so happy and so sad and so… — K.B. Ezzell Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“What are you doing abovedecks, anyhow?” “The cry went up for all hands.” “You’re not a hand. You’re a passenger.” “I may… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“the presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman was profoundly reassuring. “Iron men in wooden boats,” they were called, as… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of… — R. M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“On the wind his sail unfurled and away from our shores his ship drifted.” — Celma Ribeiro Copy Share Image
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails... — William Petersen Copy Share Image
He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
