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.
The green appeal of solar sailing - traveling by light, once chemical propellants have done their dirty job of orbital insertion - ought to be powerful.
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.
Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.
I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
... 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.
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.
Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.
There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.
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.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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.
Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
It is so important to have the cushioning of humour in one's life for a smooth run.
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.
My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
You can't climb a smooth mountain
Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us
Take things always by their smooth handle.
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.
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!
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
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?
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
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.
Love fattens on smooth words.
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
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.
I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
I'm more of a smooth peanut butter kinda girl
Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.
Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
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.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
Smooth out with wine the worries of a wrinkled brow.
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.
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.
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!
I love a confident guy with smooth skin... such a turn-on!
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
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.
Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
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