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Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break. -- Philip Larkin
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. -- Eugene Field
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. -- Christopher Columbus
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama. -- Kate Adie
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. -- Helen Keller
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad. -- Gene Tierney
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. -- Barbara Tuchman
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends. -- Alice Morse Earle
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it. -- Alexa Vega
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
My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me. -- Laura Dekker
Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston. -- Joshua Slocum
My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed. -- Ian Hart
To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while. -- Joshua Slocum
My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily. -- Ian Schrager
I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter back. Got to write the whole thing off as research on my taxes. -- Brad Thor
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman. -- Seth Shostak
I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship. -- Billy Campbell
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
Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2. -- Kiki Dee
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop! -- Joshua Slocum
Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds. -- Robin Leach
In 2004, I was on the West End stage in The Woman In White, and for every show I had to climb into a fat suit to play the obese Count Fosco. It was hard work, and unbearably hot, but I sailed through because I'd always kept myself fit. -- Michael Crawford
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' -- Niecy Nash
I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel. -- Luanne Rice
The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Saying there's a silence is a bit like if Columbus, looking to discover a new continent, only sailed 10 miles off the coast of Spain before turning back to say, 'Nothing out there!' -- Seth Shostak
For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad. -- John Travolta
I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around. -- Spike Jonze
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed. -- Dean Koontz
Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed. -- Patrick Stump
It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. -- Andrew Jackson
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. -- H. L. Mencken
Bob says hello," He told the stars. The Argo II sailed into the night. -- Rick Riordan
If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that. -- Ti West
And the ship sailed onward, gliding serenely down the moonlit river toward the dark lands beyond. -- Christopher Paolini
For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. -- Emma Donoghue
Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola. -- Francis Thompson
But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. -- Michael Ondaatje
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream. -- Khalil Gibran
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. -- Countee Cullen
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight. -- Marina Tavares Dias
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. -- Camille Paglia
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. -- William Butler Yeats
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? -- Isaac Watts
The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But He has been enough. -- Amy Carmichael
The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold -- Andy Partridge
No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze. -- William Mathews
First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And second, you'd be surprised what gentlemen do...and what ladies enjoy." ~Lord Bourne -- Sarah MacLean
I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture. -- Henry David Thoreau
and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces. -- Charles Dickens
If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today? -- A. A. Milne
I think the James Bond thing has sailed. But of course I would want to be a Bond villain. They are great parts. I think it's highly unlikely, but one can always dream. -- James Purefoy
You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn't exactly help me stay sane," I said. "Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason," said Becks. "That ship has sailed. -- Mira Grant
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I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice. -- Rick Riordan
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice." -- Rick Riordan

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