Sailed Quotes
84 Sailed quotes by 74 unique authors
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Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should…
— Christopher Columbus
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
— Helen Keller
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To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when…
— Joshua Slocum
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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
— Gene Tierney
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name…
— John Travolta
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There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would…
— Niecy Nash
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I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I…
— Steve Martin
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I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The…
— Willa Cather
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In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
— Dean Koontz
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And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own…
— Maurice Sendak
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care —…
— Emily Dickinson
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You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.
— Michael Ondaatje
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There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what…
— Stephen Sondheim
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed…
— Tom Robbins
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All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far…
— Virginia Woolf
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They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They…
— Rick Riordan
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If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed…
— Herman Melville
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I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling…
— Jodi Picoult
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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. “ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to…
— Cassandra Clare
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I grew up in those years when the Old West was passing and the New West was emerging. It was a time when we still…
— Hal Borland
Who Wrote These Sailed Quotes
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