Yachting's Quotes

#1. The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

Tom Callahan

#2. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I never saw you without a golf club tie.
I never saw you with a golf club.
I never saw you without yachting shoes.
I never saw you in a yacht.

Rachel Joyce

#4. All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

Elizabeth Banks

#6. Life is not a problem but an endless possibility.

Debasish Mridha

#7. To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp; we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!

Steve Jones

#8. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.

Rhonda Byrne

#9. Did you know that true love asks for nothing?
Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

Stevie Wonder

#10. I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

Vincent Cassel

#11. I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

Gary Snyder

#13. 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

#14. Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was ... just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But ... it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945] ... And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

James C. Collins

#15. All those pictures in my past, now that reminding me of just how beautiful You are.

Big Daddy Weave

#16. They believed in him. They had looked at him in his yachting shoes, and listened to what he said, and they had made a decision in their hearts and minds to ignore the evidence and to imagine something bigger and something infinitely more beautiful than the obvious.

Rachel Joyce

#17. If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.

Maeve Binchy

#18. The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.

Michael Dell

#19. Words do not always need a destination.
We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.
Running around headless in the vague zone.
And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

David Foenkinos

#20. Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

Blaise Pascal

#21. I'm a big yachting fan.

David Cunliffe

#22. He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear would keep him from her. No, if they tried to take her from him, he'd rip the world apart with his bare hands. And for some reason, that didn't terrify him.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. When the grand twelve million jury of our sins and sinful fury, 'Gainst our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we live. Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader, unblotted lawyer, true proceeder.

Walter Raleigh