Sail Quotes · Page 10

“We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.”

— Mette Jakobsen

Setting sail on a renovation without a detailed plan is a recipe for an expensive disaster.

— Bryan Baeumler

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

“..."we didn't make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us.”

— Janis Couvreux

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.

— Will Ferrell

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

— Bill Cosby

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

— Robert Herrick

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.

— Molly Ivins

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the…

— Aeschylus

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use…

— Frank Gehry

The Full Sail crowd was one that I had a very special relationship with, when I first debuted they were right there…

— Mojo Rawley

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come…

— Norman Mailer

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant…

— Benjamin Franklin

I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I…

— Barry Lyga

I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope... I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day…

— Tom Hanks

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving:…

— Anonymous

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when…

— David Crosby

At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as…

— Herman Melville

As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon…

— Johannes Kepler

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and…

— Bob Dylan

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city…

— Helen Keller

“Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our…

— John Paul Jones

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

— Sebastian Barry

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

— Aristotle Onassis

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

— Neil Armstrong

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

— Anonymous

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I prefer to sail in a bad ship with a good captain rather than sail in a good ship with a bad…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Life with out purpose is like a sailboat with out it's sail, with out one...you'll get nowhere.”

— Timothy Pina

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

— Corrie Ten Boom

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

— Ernest Hemingway

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

— Susan Glaspell

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

— Robert Bork

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

— Isak Dinesen

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

— John Assaraf