Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall,… — Leonard Cohen
Oh, my darling, wish you were here! And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for… — Anne Rice
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the… — D. H. Lawrence
Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he… — John Boyne
Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,… — Shel Silverstein
But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one… — Dave Eggers
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… — Frederick Buechner
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or… — Daniel Handler
The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie.… — Aleister Crowley
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. — Barbara Kingsolver
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're… — Eddie Izzard
I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they… — John Flanagan
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your… — Margaret Atwood
Paradise was always over there, a dayâ€™s sail away. But itâ€™s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep… — J. Maarten Troost
The world is a globe â€” the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. — Terry Pratchett
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville
In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green… — Sylvia Plath
He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail. — William Shakespeare
When you canâ€™t change the direction of the wind â€” adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Who Wrote These Sail Quotes

385 authors contributed a total of 512 Sail Quotes, led by these top contributors: