Top 42 Boat Sailing Quotes
#1. Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.
James Lovelock
#2. What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.
Sri Chinmoy
#3. Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer.
Dave Barry
#4. For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
Hilaire Belloc
#5. The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most
of us, but it is for some of us, and for a few of us it is essential to survival.
Jim Trefethen
#6. 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
#7. Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away
Guy Gavriel Kay
#9. Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way
Patricia Highsmith
#10. Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
Humphrey Bogart
#11. I would describe the size and style of our vessel, but I don't know anything about sailing, so I'm trusting you to picture a boat.
Anna Kendrick
#12. After an orange cloud - formed as a result of a dust storm over the Sahara and caught up by air currents - reached the Philippines and settled there with rain, I understood that we are all sailing in the same boat.
Vladimir Kovalyov
#13. Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#14. Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
George Matthew Adams
#15. During my first several days there I really did feel like a fish out of water. After years of following a military dress code I wasn't even sure what to wear. The one place I felt like I fit in was out on a boat and, fortunately, trials for the freshman sailing team began right away.
Ted Turner
#16. I want a boat that drinks 6, eats 4, and sleeps 2.
Ernest K. Gann
#17. I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.
Rachel McAdams
#18. I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
Jonathan Powell
#20. When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
Laura Dekker
#21. I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
Arthur Ashe
#22. Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.
John W. Trimmer
#23. Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!
Tony Jones
#24. Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
Renzo Piano
#25. The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.
James Spithill
#26. Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.
David Crosby
#27. Clever dicks will notice that the figure changes as the boat gets deeper or lighter because the area of the waterplane changes. You can go on enjoying arithmetic all night like this and never go sailing at all.
William R. Cooper
#28. The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.
John Rousmaniere
#29. True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion. It turns your boat in circles. Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.
Mary Pipher
#30. I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that.
Lin Pardey
#31. Sed's heart sank to his toes. Too late for that. He was already on the boat. Was Jessica planning to kill him and then dump his body overboard before sailing off into the sunset with his drummer and bassist?
Olivia Cunning
#32. That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.
Michael Morpurgo
#33. A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#34. The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.
John Moffitt
#35. I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
Arthur M. Jolly
#36. I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
John Gurdon
#37. This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath ...
Gary Paulsen
#38. My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
Albert Einstein
#39. And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing!
Henrik Ibsen
#40. I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.
P. J. O'Rourke
#41. If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. A small sailing craft is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint of trouble.
E.B. White
#42. If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E.B. White
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