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#sailing

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What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.


Matthew Goldman


#love

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.


Henry Walter Bates


#colours #elegant #feature #flight #flowers

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of sailing.


William Falconer


#being #circumstance #every #facility #fleet

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.


Van Wyck Brooks


#book #bumped #cape #dead #desert

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!


Noam Chomsky


#advances #ago #century #communication #email

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.


Lawrence Hargrave


#both #conditions #most #observing #ordinary

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.


Amelia Earhart


#fun #might #plain #price #sailing

...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.


Tove Jansson


#mermaids #oatmeal #sailing #humor

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#books #ideas #sailing #ships #guns

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.


Hugh Dancy


#any #because #becoming #comfortable #feel






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