A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
“She was the dawn and the sea and the sky, and every color ever seen by every sailor ever sailed. McBeth Johnson,… — Pirate Lanford 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
I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains. — Felix Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“My woman has a wandering eye; Yarrow, thyme and thorn. She eyes the ocean and the sky While stitching sails, forlorn. I… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can… — Abby Sunderland Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies,… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
“ The Voyager We are all lonely voyagers sailing on life's ebb tide, To a far off place were all stripling warriors… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor;… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we… — Ray Mabus Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but —" He shrugged. "— so would you if… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea. — George Alex Stevens Copy Share Image
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off! — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money. — Tom Feeney Copy Share Image
My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming. — Leah Remini 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
“A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have… — Avi Copy Share Image
The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image