Quotes About Sailing

This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from its frozen, parent cliffs, and goes sailing out to sea in lonely pride.

Some time in the early hours of the morning, I find myself staring at him in the dim bedroom light, at the strong, lithe form of him. His back has a curve to it like the sweep of a boat. I steal out a hand to stroke it, wondering whether he's awake, when he turns and his eyes glint at me. "Do you sail?" I say, half sleepily. "No. Used to row, though." "Huh." I nod my head: That makes sense.

In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all. And the same thing happens in sailing: make your sheet fast, never slacken,--and over you go

The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what life is about.

My ship had lost crew mates before, yet I sailed on.

He remembered hearing of the superstition that told them they would come to a sharp brink, and sail over it, to fall forever from the world in space and darkness. The legends had not kept them back, he knew; but he wondered how often, in their lonely sailing, they had intimations of depthless plunge, and how often they were repeated in their dreams.

It's all the old tales sailors tell about Finns. How they are a race of magicians and warlocks. How they can sing up a storm any time they've a mind to. Why, back in the old sailing days you'd be hard put to find a captain who would sign up a Finn—or a crew who would tolerate having him aboard!

I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

They are both from the Guion Steamship Company, and refer to the sailing of their boats from Liverpool.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

No one wants to row who has ever sailed.

Things might have been a lot worse. Don't you worry about it overmuch. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time. Worrying never made a sailor.

The Greeks even had a third argument that the earth must be round, for why else does one first see the sails of a ship coming over the horizon, and only later see the hull?

on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

From the North to the South, Ebudæ into Khartoum, From the deep sea of Clouds to the island of the moon, Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never been, Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never seen, We can sail, we can sail with the Orinoco Flow, We can sail, we can sail, Sail away, sail away, sail away.

press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common.

In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Korsan olman?n en güzel yan?, dedi gutlu korsan, yaÄŸmac?l?kt?r.

As they rode, the empty sky and snow melted into each other, making Pinmei feel as if they were sailing on a vast white sea. When

My thoughts floated back to the boat sailing on the surreal lake that the monsoon had made of the street.