The ocean is an object of no small terror.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
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!
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
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..
A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.
To reach a port we must set sail
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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.
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
It is time to be old To take in sail.
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.