One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped… — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. — William Falconer Copy Share Image
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner Copy Share Image
Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal.… — Hobart Alter Copy Share Image
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time… — Napoleon On Robert Fulton's Steamship Copy Share Image
The fear among athletes and organizers is that sailing is becoming more associated with silver hair than silver trophies. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, On a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky, And I will never… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
“The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a… — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn't want to go to university, so I thought I… — Marc Koska Copy Share Image
“scow n. a wide-beamed sailing dinghy. a flat-bottomed boat with sloping ends used as a lighter and in dredging and other… — Oxford University Press Copy Share Image
What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs… — Elisabeth Shue 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's because… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“my mine , I searching for you .. long time in the trip time walls, searching you in was me.. I never… — Ridwan Nurwansyah 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
A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea… — Helge Ingstad Copy Share Image
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze. — Swami Prabhavananda Copy Share Image
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land. — Peter Sarsgaard Copy Share Image
“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat Copy Share Image
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. — Lowell Thomas 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
