Top Sailing Quotes

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's becaus...

Sailing Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sail

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage.

(n.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing.

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love...

Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil — or perhaps just of folly — when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles throu...

You don't throw a compass overboard because the ocean is calm.

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

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 was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

We of the sea come to know each other quickly; our loves, like our hates, are born of sudden dangers.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are...

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to emai...

Charter boats are like books with no covers.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.