“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The moment I took hold of the line, I felt the mighty tug of the wind coursing into my palm and wrist,… — Mike Blakely Copy Share Image
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships; to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far,… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...surely these victims of the sea...had rushed willingly down the hills to the water, only to find themselves caught in the wrong… — John Rousmaniere Copy Share Image
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. — Francis Chichester Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes,… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard,… — Barbara Ascher Copy Share Image
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. — Dave Anderson Copy Share Image
I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a… — Joshua Slocum 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
We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
A Father Is Neither An Anchor To Hold Us Back Nor A Sail To Take Us There But A Guiding Light Whose… — Anonymous 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
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
