Sailor Quotes - page 4

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. (William Shakespeare)
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Calm seas never made a good sailor. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get The sum of their fears. View quote
Winston Churchill
If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great. View quote
Dennis Miller
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. View quote
John Ralston Saul
I find the audiences very excited. But then they come and say to me, "Your optimism has brushed off on me. I didn't know we had an option. I feel so much better." They say, "Your optimism." And I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I read somewhere - and the person who wrote this was not a mountaineer but a sailor - that the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head. View quote
Primo Levi
Eric Daman and Meredith Markworth-Pollack: "Vanessa is a breath of fresh air. She's the Lower East Side, Raising Victor Vargas home-girl. One night we saw M.I.A. in concert wearing a sequin sailor suit and were like "Omigod, she is so Vanessa.”" View quote
M.I.A.
I'd make me into a brand new sailor if I were God Maybe there were new things over there It comes from within me to write as though rabid, I'm hungry, do you understand Let the doctors call it what they will Who can know anything best of all What does it mean to know anything best Which religion doesn't grow old. View quote
Ataol Behramoğlu