Sailing Quotes

331 quotes by 258 authors

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an… — P.J. O'Rourke
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race. — P.J. O'Rourke
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily. — P.J. O'Rourke
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
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely… — Pamela Anderson
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they… — Edward Abbey
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all… — Mao Zedong
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart… — Ramakrishna
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships-although… — Rodney Stark
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But… — Johnny Depp
Wisdom sails with wind and time. — John Florio
I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse… — Margaret Atwood
Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing.… — Wayne Dyer
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees. — Chris Priestley
You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor. — Bette Davis
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except… — Jerome K. Jerome
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying… — Charles Dickens
Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing… — Margaret Atwood
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. — Robert Aris Willmott
Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker

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