Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Alexander Wang

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Edward Heath

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

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

William Penn

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Will Carleton

If we who have sailed togetherFlit out of each other's view,The world will sail on, I think,Just as it used to do.

Albert Einstein

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Andrew Jackson

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

We've got the spinnaker up, but the sail is sort of flapping at the moment,

Gary Jobson

Every sailor is doing something at every moment. There is no letup.

When Murkowski sailed into office, everything went to hell.

Alexander Dale Oen

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little.

As a sailor it was very important to me, and it reinforces a sense of place.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Dennis Conner

I've never sailed a schooner. Never even been on one.

I told them that we have to treat this like a championship series and that it's going to be smooth sailing after this.

The three sailors died. One Sea Tiger cadre was injured.

Karen White

when you lose your sails, row.

J. P. Morgan

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

It will not sail through the Senate, ... It will be a tough fight, but we will win.

P. J. O'Rourke

This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you..

P. J. O'Rourke

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Fernando Pessoa

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

Christopher Columbus

I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course.

Fritz Sauckel

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

Emily Dickinson

The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To reach a port we must set sail