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Quotes About Sailboat

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.
~ Michelle Shocked
Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.
~ Amity Shlaes
Soon there was a horizon, ironed flat as if by the load of the sky, and a sailboat toiling across it.
~ Anthony Doerr
If you smoke on a sailboat, flip your ashes or discard your cigarette on the side the sail is on, so the wind won't blow sparks or ashes or butts back into the boat. —Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette
~ Anderson Cooper
Beneath it was a photograph of Hank alone, standing shirtless on the deck of a sailboat with his hands on his hips.
~ Sara Gruen
They passed it late in the afternoon, their single sail stretched to bursting, clinker-built hull heeling well over, bow slicing up a column of spray that salted mouths, eyes and bodies.
~ Garth Nix
The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
We had a sailboat, a thirty-eight-foot Hunter, docked at South Shore Harbor in New Orleans.
~ Erica Spindler
I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.
~ Rex Smith
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
~ Nina Simone
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
~ Gary Paulsen
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
~ Dave Barry
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
~ Frank Gehry
Nestled in the tropics of the Coral Sea, New Caledonia was a French territory and where Julie and Marc had just sold the sailboat that took them 15,000 miles around the world. Of course, recouping their initial investment had been part of the plan. All said and done, their 15-month exploration of the globe, from the gondola-rich waterways of Venice to the tribal shores of Polynesia, had cost between $18,000 and $19,000. Less than rent and baguettes in Paris.
~ Timothy Ferriss
My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.
~ Ernesto Bertarelli
At the Docks' altitude, gravity was still about three-quarters of a gee. Air fountains hung a breathable atmosphere over the middle part of the platform. The day before, she had taken a sailboat across the clear-bottomed sea. That was a strange experience indeed: planetary clouds below your keel, stars and indigo sky above.
~ Vernor Vinge
The things Sarah called problems were wholly elective eg no first class seats, a leaking sailboat
~ Noah Hawley