Quotes tagged ‘Sailor’

“The wise sailor flees the storm as it gathers.”

— George R. R. Martin, Ryan J. Condal, Sara Hess, Laenor Velaryon, John MacMillan, imdb.com

“She looks like a tiny drunken sailor.”

— Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Alma Winograd-Diaz, Rosa Salazar, imdb.com

“Kyle Anderson: Ya know, you gotta give it up for Columbus. Discoverin' the New World. Mike Baxter: Well, I'll give him this, he's a good salesman. Kyle Anderson: I think you mean sailo. Mike Baxter: No, I mean salesman. He was an Italian, got the Spanish to pay for three trips to India, which he nev…”

— Vince Calandra, Kyle Anderson, Christoph Sanders, imdb.com

“Man has always been drawn to the sea. But it's an unnatural setting for us, a place of great danger. Tides, currents, waves, wind, each presenting their own hazards, none of which can be ignored. The slightest lapse of judgment can be a mistake you might never recover from. But a good sailor doesn't…”

— Scott Buck, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“Wherefore we must have these mutinies and discords that are grown amongst us redressed, for by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between the sailors and gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and sailors, it doth make me mad to…”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“How did Viking sailors communicate? Using Norse code.”

— katielh98, reddit.com

“Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.”

— E. B. White, en.wikiquote.org