Quotes Tagged "sailing"

Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one's foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Sometimes, life lets you float amongst the clouds rather than sail upon the waters.

Some jump down off the bridges, some sail towards the horizon… Meaning is always under construction.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came. [Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.