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.
Sterling Hayden

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Fritz Sauckel

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

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

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
Bo Derek

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

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.
Arthur Ashe

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.
Hugh Dancy

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
Michelle Shocked

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

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

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

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

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

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.
Fritz Sauckel

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Dennis Conner

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks

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

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.
William Falconer

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.
Lawrence Hargrave