Sailing Quotes - Page 3

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

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!

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.

...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Everyone needs to realize why am I here? It comes in everyone's life; you ask why am I here? What am I doing? Once you are able to answer that question for yourself honestly, you have smooth sailing.

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

To reach a port we must set sail

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.