Sail Quotes · Page 11

when you lose your sails, row.

— Karen White

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that…

— Bernard Moitessier

I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its…

— Grayson Perry

I had a dream about building a house on a dock, composed from 100 triangles. You'd have to sail from room to…

— Henrik Vibskov

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke…

— Janet Fitch

I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism…

— Pantha du Prince

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local…

— Dorothy Hamill

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch…

— John F. Kennedy

Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act,…

— Harriet Lerner

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and…

— Claud Cockburn

My dad always wanted to sail. They lived on a boat for eight years.

— Jeffrey Skoll

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across…

— Colin Powell

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

— Susan Glaspell

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

— Peter Sarsgaard

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function…

— Thomas de Quincey

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would…

— Voltaire

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:…

— Leonard Nimoy

I'll find you, Will!" Then the wind filled the big, square sail of the wolfship and she heeled away from the shore,…

— John Flanagan

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

— Saul Williams

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

— Harold MacMillan

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places,…

— Oscar Wilde

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

— Augustus Hare

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