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If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn`t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it`s life or death.

- Morgan Freeman

You sort of go, All right, I`m going to go out and give it a shot. I wanted more. I figured I`d get out while that ship was still sailing.

- Nicole Sullivan

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I`ve always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

- Bo Derek
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Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

- Amelia Earhart

Truth be known, I am actually looking forward to this round, ... The West Series has never competed on this track, so it is pretty much like sailing into uncharted waters. There is no open test so everyone will be on the same page when practice gets underway on Saturday morning. A lot will depend on the crew and that is one of the areas where we excel. Our Lynch Mob crew is very good at getting the job done in short order. Once we have run the track a few times, we should be able to get our Mr. Gas Dodge in race trim in with virtually no problem.

- Scott Lynch

As you know, this is Columbus Day. And so, like Columbus, we have a reliable system of navigation. We are sailing in a craft in which we have confidence.

- Terry Nichols

Brando clearly was imagining himself as that person. There are several aspects of it that fit with Brando very well; that kind of loner, interested in sailing and the South Seas, drawn to Asian women and eating and drinking.

- David Thomson

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

- Michelle Shocked

(But it`s not all plain sailing. Provenco recently settled an insider trading case taken by the Securities Commission.) We felt we had a very strong defence but we decided to settle, ... For the amount of time and management distraction involved it just wasn`t worth fighting.

- David Ritchie

You`ve got a Republican White House; you`ve got Republicans in control of Congress. It should be smooth sailing.

- Chris Black

I think if humans are really going to explore the solar system, or go beyond our immediate neighborhood, we are going to have to go with nuclear power. Nuclear power really is the development of the steam ship compared to sailing ships.

- Steve Howe

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

- Alex Ovechkin

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.

- Alexandra Bodemann

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

- Alton Greene

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.

- Andrew Harvey

Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, buy you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

- Anthony Swerdlow

I woke up at the end of this past summer and thought, `I`ve just completed my 50th year in sailing.` I`m 55 and started when I was six.

- Anwar Ibrahim

I told them that we have to treat this like a championship series and that it`s going to be smooth sailing after this.

- Artie Braden

I don`t want to see more development on the waterfront. Knock it down, put some benches in there, some grass, a little area for the sailing operation. I don`t want to see condos or some recreational center.

- Arun Jaitely