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  • Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared -- Buddy Melges
  • My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped. -- Ernesto Bertarelli
  • Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years. -- Amity Shlaes
  • I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well. -- Bob Seger
  • 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 would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second. -- Nina Simone
  • In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world. -- Albert Einstein
  • I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
  • I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners. -- Rex Smith
  • You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates. -- Dave Barry
  • At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc. -- Keith Carter
  • At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure. -- Robert Grudin
  • I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats. -- Steve Fossett
  • I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • I've been a river kayaker for a long time and I've done quite a few trips. I like kayaking and I like canoeing. I don't really like being on yachts or sailboats or cruise ships. I don't like anything that's large and not human-powered. -- Misha Collins
  • All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn't matter what it is - you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats. -- Richard Bach
  • I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers. -- Albert Einstein
  • The rough and ready improvisational quality to life on board the International Space Station is reminiscent of a long trip in a sailboat: privacy and fresh produce are in short supply, hygiene is basic, and a fair amount of the crew's time is spent just on maintaining and repairing the craft. -- Chris Hadfield
  • I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus. Beer inside. It was like a sailboat, you know...we couldn't see anything. Some things about Texas are so different than Ontario. I was just thinking about how different it is from where I live and, you know, whatever happens to inspire a song happened. -- Fred Eaglesmith
  • My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. -- Frank Gehry
  • Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race. -- Joseph Barbera
  • I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit. -- Kevin Patterson
  • With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots. -- Kathryn Lasky
  • I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet. -- Suzanne Collins
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