Sailed Quotes

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.

(About being held up at an airport for refusing to be parted from the manuscript of her seventh "Harry Potter" book): The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven. A large part of it is handwritten and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S. They let me take it on thankfully, bound up in elastic bands. I don`t know what I would have done if they hadn`t -- sailed home probably.

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.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I got hit on my left leg, and my hips got opened up a little bit, so the ball sailed. I was aiming to throw outside to Mike because the defender was inside. In the split second right as I was letting go of the ball, my left hip got hit and I opened up, and it was kind of a duck, and it trailed inside on me.

Right as I was throwing the ball, my left hip got hit and opened up and (the pass) sailed inside for me, ... ... (If I hadn`t got hit), it probably would have been a jump ball ... but sometimes that happens. You get hit on the throw, and funny things happen.

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.

I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

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.

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!

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.

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.