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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. -- Samuel Butler
I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through. -- James Cagney
I have the mouth of a sailor. -- Kristen Bell
I'm what you call a Depression sailor. -- Ernest Borgnine
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. -- Anna Freud
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. -- Walter Scott
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. -- John Locke
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. -- David Lloyd George
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. -- Jon Kyl
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. -- Samuel Johnson
A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. -- Bernard Moitessier
There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity. -- Thomas Gibbons
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. -- Charles Davis
Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. -- Nicholas Monsarrat
Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. -- Francis Chichester
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls. -- Hugo Vihlen
My absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing, like, a 'Mass Effect' guy hanging out with a 'Sailor Moon,' and they're just having a great time. -- Joss Whedon
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. -- Fritz Sauckel
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. -- Abraham Lincoln
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune -- Naoko Takeuchi
I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship. -- Charles Darwin
My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn -- Naoko Takeuchi
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon! -- Naoko Takeuchi
Even someday when we disappear... ...and new Sailor Senshis are born... Sailor Moon, you will always be Invincible. The most beautiful shining star. -- Naoko Takeuchi
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I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon -- Naoko Takeuchi
Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home. -- Emily Browning
Every Sailor has the potential to lead," said Mullen, "I don't care if it's a seaman recruit or someone higher ranking than myself. Where there's a will, there's a way. -- Michael Mullen
You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos -- John Green
When NYDJ called me and told me that Christie Brinkley was going to be on set with me I freaked out. And when I met Christie, she had a little freak out because she said that her daughter Sailor loved me so much. -- Ashley Graham
Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon -- Naoko Takeuchi
Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore. -- Sterling Hayden
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. -- Honore de Balzac
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor. -- Jimmy Webb
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
Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary. -- Leland Orser
The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor's outfit. A pity we had to give them back. -- David Walliams
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
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. -- Maria Mitchell
I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains. -- Anna Neagle
Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday. -- Patti Smith
I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday. -- Patti Smith
I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own. -- David Crosby
You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either. -- James Spithill
We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is. -- Michael Winter
I'm a sailor, not a politician. -- Fritz Sauckel
Calm seas never made a good sailor -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen. -- John Ratzenberger
the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot. -- Anne Sexton
A good sailor knows everything is always changing. -- Luanne Rice
Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed. -- Patrick Stump
It is part of a sailor's life to die well. -- Stephen Decatur
She been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream. -- Gordon Lightfoot
One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers. -- John Adams
Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way! -- William Allingham
The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can. -- Emily Dickinson
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! -- Paddy Chayefsky
A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment. -- Abby Sunderland
A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea. -- Enoch Powell
To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea. -- Bob Seger
Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does. -- Ogwo David Emenike
The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. -- Og Mandino
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler. -- Evan Esar
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea -- Honore de Balzac
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor. -- Abby Sunderland
Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. -- Herman Melville
A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own. -- Avi
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head -- Herman Melville
Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor. -- Dolly Parton
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea. -- George Bernard Shaw
Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming. -- Leah Remini
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money. -- Arthur Laffer
Ten geographers who think the world is flat will tend to reinforce each other's errors ... Only a sailor can set them straight. -- John Ralston Saul
Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea. -- George Alex Stevens
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm? -- Emile Chartier
It's not fair to say that Congress spends money like a drunk sailor. At least the sailor is spending his own money! -- Ronald Reagan
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. -- William Shakespeare
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. -- Herman Melville
If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married!.. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home. -- Isaac Bickerstaffe
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. -- Alan Watts
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It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight. -- Ovid
To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it. -- Ricky Gervais
Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing. -- John Dewey
Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake. -- Peter Levi
Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress. -- John C. Maxwell
For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction. -- Hal Moore
The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist! -- W.S. Gilbert
I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on a three masted ship. -- Nick Offerman
The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'. -- Mary Roach
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by shooting the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. -- A.W. Tozer
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. -- Tobias Lindholm
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home. -- Bruce Chatwin
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission. -- Rose George
I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go. -- Keith Coogan
When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears. -- Winston Churchill
Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit. -- John Fowles
In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever. -- Richard Bode
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course. -- Henry David Thoreau
Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes? -- Dylan Thomas
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going. -- Leonardo da Vinci
In my limited experience, shows are like children. You can teach them manners and dress them in little sailor suits, but in the end, they're going to be who they're going to be. -- Tina Fey
If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great. -- Dennis Miller
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. -- Og Mandino
... we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom ... -- George Eliot
A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. -- Maria Mitchell
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. -- Edmondo De Amicis

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