Yachtsmen Quotes & Sayings

A wrong was just righted. Take care of my best friend. — Kasie West

I found myself praying: May I love and accept myself just as I am. — Tara Brach

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. — Christopher Combe

Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see. — Gina Greenlee

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking. — Jay McInerney

e-books "smell like burned fuel — Ray Bradbury

Every day we live and every meal we eat we influence the great microbial organ inside us - for better or for worse. — Giulia Enders

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. — Don DeLillo

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand! — Maria Semple

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business. — Dick Van Dyke

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single. — Boris Kodjoe

The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound. — David A. Bednar

What do we know but that we face one another in this place? — W.B.Yeats

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play. — Victoria Legrand

God could not be reached for comment. But let us at least agree that He is quite obviously attuned to the doings of politics and media. That is why so many would-be leaders say they are being "called upon" to run for president, and why eulogists lean so heavily on the trope that God runs an HR department that recruits people like Sunday hosts and yachtsmen into heaven. — Mark Leibovich

Hey, I'm not judging. I'm familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. She's a riot. — Marissa Meyer