Sailing Quotes
Sailing Quote of the day
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
I know enough about Satan to realize that he will have all his weapons ready for determined opposition. He would be a missionary simpleton who expected plain sailing in any work of God.
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.
I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
Spirits rise as the sails fill... Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare. Close the hatches and ports! We're sailing again!
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
