Sailboat Quotes - Page 2

• I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

  Nina Simone

  First Love, Love Is, Men

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• It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

  Vito Dumas

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

  John Guzzwell, Vito Dumas, Joshua Slocum (1976). “Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations”, John De Graff

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• Spirits rise as the sails fill...
  Gone is the sea's glassy surface, and with it the terrible glare.
  Close the hatches and ports!
  We're sailing again!

  Jim Moore

  Sea, Sailing, Nautical

  Jim Moore (1996). “By Way of the Wind”, p.105, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Years, Building

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• I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered.

  Misha Collins

  Kayaking, Rivers, Long

  "Misha Collins Interview -- JustJared.com Exclusive". Interview with Alana Lynch, www.justjared.com. October 1, 2008.

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• 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

  Funny, Sailing, Boat

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.93, Crown Archetype

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• I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

  Suzanne Collins

  Blue, Feet, Green

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1274, Scholastic Inc.

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• My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

  Ernesto Bertarelli

  Summer, Father, Vacation

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• The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft.

  Chris Hadfield

  Hygiene, Space, Long

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• I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened.

  Fred Eaglesmith

  Song, Writing, Beer

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• I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition.

  Pantha du Prince

  Intelligent, Ideas, Giving

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• Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

  Buddy Melges

  Games, Racing, Chance

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• I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

  Steve Fossett

  Sports, Airplane, Different

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• I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.

  Gary Paulsen

  Adventure, Alaska, Challenges

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

  Bob Seger

  Motorcycle, Love My Family, Aspect

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

  Robert Grudin

  Pain, Fall, Blue

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Mean, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Funny, Beer, Sailing

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.226, Ballantine Books

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• Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

  Gayle Forman

  Moving, Thinking, Wind

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• All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.

  Richard Bach

  Flower, Garden, World

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Tree, Looks

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• I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

  Rex Smith

  Growing Up, Parent, Together

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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