The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us… — Jack Finney 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
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. — Harold S. Geneen Copy Share Image
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
