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Tag Name "Sail" (351)

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For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.
Hal Moore
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I’m not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it’s on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
Alexander Wang
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Alexander Pope
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Alexander Pope
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And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.
Heinrich Heine
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
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Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting Which Side Are You On? And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.
Bob Dylan
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My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.
Albert Einstein
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Donald Cram
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No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.
William Mathews
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When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Robert Breault
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
William Osler
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
William Penn
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
William Penn
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Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.
Christopher Cross
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I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.
Daniel Defoe
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How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
Al-Shafi‘i
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I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
Aeschylus
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Every object is beautiful in motion a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
Abigail Adams
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One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.
Abby Sunderland
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
Abby Sunderland
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
Joseph Conrad
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The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
Henry David Thoreau
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A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
Mahatma Gandhi
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