Sail Quotes

512 Sail quotes by 385 unique authors

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a… — Unknown Author
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find." — Walt Whitman
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:… — Anais Nin
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails… — Roberto Bolano
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea. — Nikos Kazantzakis
She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared… — Jeanette Winterson
I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.… — Barry Lyga
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which… — Oscar Wilde
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...… — Erich Maria Remarque
...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and… — William Butler Yeats
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix… — Oscar Wilde
A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly… — Marge Piercy
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I… — Pablo Neruda
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this… — Gary Paulsen
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the… — Charles Dickens
We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly… — L.A. Meyer
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the… — Nathanael West
If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,… — Richard Russo

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