Quotes tagged with 'sailing'

Our voyage had commenced, and at last we were away, gliding through the clean water, past the reeds. Care was lifted from our shoulders, for we were free from advice, pessimism, officialism, heat and hot air.
—K. adlard Coles sailing

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.
—Christopher Columbus sailing

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
—Dennis Conner sailing

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
—Charles Cook sailing

From birth man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth, but man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
—Jacques Yves Cousteau sailing

You can’t bullshit the ocean. It’s just not listening.
—David Crosby / American songwriter sailing

Boats, like whiskey, are all good.
—A. Culler sailing

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
—George William Curtis sailing

The best bilge pump of all is a bucket in the hands of a frightened man
—Butch Dalrymple Smith sailing

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.
—Charles C. Davis sailing

A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit; but a sailor is part of the local scene from the moment he arrives.
—Anne Davison life sailing travel

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.
—Thomas Fleming Day cooking sailing

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.
—Dom Degnon sailing

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate after all.
—Johnny Depp life sailing

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
—Charles Dickens life sailing

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
—Isak Dinesen sailing

The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.
—Isak Dinesen life sailing

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.
—Sir Francis Drake sailing

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.
—Vito Dumas sailing

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
—William Faulkner life sailing