Bernard Moitessier Quotes

#1. I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

Carl Sandburg

#2. Walking ... is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

Bernard Moitessier

#4. I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.

Katy Perry

#5. At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Victor Hugo

#6. When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

Bernard Moitessier

#7. You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.

Bernard Moitessier

#8. Though differing greatly from animals and leading a sedentary life there are plants which are said to live for hundreds of years, forming a reliable source for scientific research.

Justin Ascott

#9. I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

Rapsody

#10. My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

Bernard Moitessier

#11. We live in ugly times.

David Byrne

#12. You can find a better you inside of you. Why don't you search for that?

Munia Khan

#13. A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

Bernard Moitessier

#14. A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott

#15. I long for another human face just as I fear it.

Robin McKinley

#16. Stand right there. If your ass loses contact with that wall, you are going to lose contact with life as you have always known it. You understand?
Roland

Stephen King

#17. I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

Bernard Moitessier

#18. As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Stanley Tucci

#19. Talents used are talents multiplied.

Ellen G. White

#20. You know, there was a part of me that was so defiant, and a part of me that was so ashamed, and I really couldn't say which was which at any given point in time.

Courtney Eldridge