An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd… — Sterling Hayden Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
Just take ease of interchange between people. Your email is of course faster than letter - on the other hand the transition… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and… — Jim Moore Copy Share Image
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis Copy Share Image
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has… — Alan Villiers Copy Share Image
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
