Top 338 Sailing Quotes & Sayings

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

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

I'm sort of known in the comedy community as "Smooth Sailing," just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn. Everything has gone well for me. I've never had a project fail. Everywhere I go, it's "What's up, Smooth Sailing?! How are the seas today, buddy?" I'm like, "Calm as can be!"

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster of a sailing ship! He must stand at the very stern, with an unobstructed view of the sails. When sailing "by the wind" his eye is glued to the weather-side of the uppermost sail; he keeps it drawing a trace of wind, but never lets it fill.

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Sailing, the most expensive way to travel 3rd class

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

It's not always plain sailing... especially when you're flying!

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

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

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Riding through the air on silver wings instead of sailing the seas with white wings, he must steer his own course, for the air is uncharted, and he must therefore explore for himself the strange eddies and currents of the ever-changing sky in its many moods.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I wouldn't say I'm that social... I'm either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.

I know how to dance with the wind, I can use its power by sailing this way, then that way, and again this way, till finally I get to you. With rowing, you're working primarily with your arms and shoulders. But with sailing, you're making bigger use of the wind and the waves.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

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

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.

Sailing is a big outlet for me.

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

It was clear that it wouldn't always be plain sailing for me.

I'm a qualified yacht skipper, so I do a lot of sailing.

When I'm not acting, I'm usually sailing or camping or exploring or travelling or spending time in New Zealand.

My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.

I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.

When you play this game long enough, everything is not going to be smooth sailing.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips.

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

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

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sailing on a sunken dream

Acting has not been a smooth sailing journey.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love