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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.
The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
My dad bought us boats. I think he thought sailing was a wholesome way to spend time.
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
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!
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.
I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me
Even though I grew up surfing and sailing in Southern California, I was born horse crazy.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.
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.
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.
From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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?
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.
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.
I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the sea!
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
... 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.
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.
I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.
People spend money on sports, and I just don't do golf, I hate it. But I love sailing and the technology aspect.
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.
I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
