Sailing A Boat Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

Jonathan Powell

#5. 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

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

Ernest K. Gann

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away

Guy Gavriel Kay

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

Hilaire Belloc

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!

Tony Jones

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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