He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head
It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?
Any chance he’s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?” “About as likely as me doing it. ” Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. “I put him at the top of the list.
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is. . . is freedom.
. . . 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.
No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. . . . [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class
Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.