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Sails Quotes

We’ve collected the best Sails Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Victoria Aveyard, Christina Tosi, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Arthur Ashe, William Falconer. Use them as an inspiration.

1
I’m a TV junkie, so it’s hard to choose just one. Currently I’m a slave to ‘Black Sails,’ ‘Vikings,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Mindy Project.’
Victoria Aveyard
2
Whenever I get in a car and I’m going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.
Christina Tosi
3
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It’s the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
4
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
5
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
6
When you do a record like ‘Talk,’ and you’re happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn’t sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.
Trevor Rabin
7
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Pliny the Elder
8
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
9
You don’t want to throw out a good idea and have nobody get excited about it. It takes the wind out of your sails.
Kevin Nealon
10
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn
11
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion – by wind.
Hermann von Helmholtz
12
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work – though not consciously.
Frank Gehry
13
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Beverly Cleary
14
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
15
I wanted to make sure that ‘Up’ wasn’t a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It’s a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.
Pete Docter
16
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio
17
There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
James Spithill
18
You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.
Jeff Lemire