Sailing Quotes - Page 16

• Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Inspirational, Funny, Knowing

  "'Avengers' Star Tom Hiddleston on His Supervillain Character: 'His Whole Life is a Lie' " by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 03, 2012.

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• I'd lay down my life for her - Mas'r Davy - Oh! most content and cheerful! She's more to me - gent'lmen - than - she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I - than ever I could say. I - I love her true. There ain't a gent'lman in all the land - nor yet sailing upon all the sea - that can love his lady more than I love her.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sea, Land

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet.

  Noam Chomsky

  Communication, Ships, Radical Change

  "The Secret of Noam: A Chomsky Interview". Interview with Jeff Jetton and Dakota Fine, chomsky.info. March 9, 2011.

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• One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Distance, Communication

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.91, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Baby, Art, Sex

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• As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

  Herman Melville

  War, Men, Air

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.463

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• There's precious little to say between day and dark,
  Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
  Of time sailing like a magic barque
  Or something as fine for the amenities.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Dark, Magic

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.43, Macmillan

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• ... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Swimming, White, Together

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.824, e-artnow

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• Smooth sailing is what I hope for. No, I'm okay with no big ups, no big downs, it's all right. Just go full steam ahead, all things well and good, yeah. I mean as a family man, all you want is, as a dad, pure happiness for your kids, that's a universal parent thing. Yeah, that's it, that's my dream, happy kids.

  Johnny Depp

  Dream, Dad, Mean

  "Johnny Depp Interview, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Inspirational, Funny, Flower

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.131

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

  Charles Kingsley

  Inspirational, Funny, Three

  'The Three Fishers'

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• We wanted a musical number that would capture the exhilaration of being out on a boat as they were and sailing with the stars and all that. So that's the origin of We Know the Way. From very early on we said, for an audience that doesn't know this, what we need a song that can really have the kind of sweep and the, you know, pull you in. So that was early on, we conceived of like that should be a musical moment [in Maona].

  John Musker

  Song, Stars, Numbers

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Time, Ocean, Mean

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Life in the ocean makes Earth hospitable. We are sailing along in the universe and we have a blue engine that is making everything alright.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Blue, Earth

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2017

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• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  Ovid

  Men, Sea, Ships

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• Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

  Reid Hoffman

  Focus, Growth, Balance

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Everyone, you know, during crises times, is much more focused on, okay, how do we get the boat completely seaworthy, sailing along well, and everything going well? And so as long as you're communicating how the general strategy of the company and how the work they can do to add to that and to make that more successful and the thing that they can contribute to that, that is generally very motivating for employees in crisis times.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, Long, Add

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Thank God, Trailers

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• "Chaunt in his ear delusions magical,
  That he may fight the horses of the sea."
  The Druids took them to their mystery,
  And chaunted for three days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Horse, Fighting, Sea

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough

  James Spithill

  Pushing, Enough, Hard

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• Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

  Dennis Conner

  Inspirational, Funny, Real

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• I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Country, Fashion

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• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

  Owen Feltham

  Humanity, Ships, Moments

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• You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

  Leroy Chiao

  Technology, World, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

  Jane Alison

  Ocean, Moving, Flying

  Source: therumpus.net

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