{"quotes":[{"text":"For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.","author":"Homer","tags":["breaking","man","odysseus","odyssey","sailing","sailor","sea","suffer","suffering"],"id":719,"author_id":"Homer"},{"text":"I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.","author":"Rachel McAdams","tags":["love","boat","sailing "],"id":8110,"author_id":"Rachel+McAdams"},{"text":"Life is a voyage across troubled waters where our days are often spent clinging to the top of the highest mast, scouting for a comforting glimpse of shore.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["crossing","life","life","passage","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","sailing","struggles","voyage","waters"],"id":15800,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet you!","author":"Nabil Sabio Azadi","tags":["attitude-toward-life","change","enthusiasm","inspirational","optimism","sailing","travel"],"id":25941,"author_id":"Nabil+Sabio+Azadi"},{"text":"I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able to see. It makes me grateful there is only so much I can see, and I am left mostly with questions. Grateful, also, that hope is not a reasonable thing. Though I have seen my share of darkness, I am spared perceiving much of it. And here is why I hope beyond a reasonable doubt: I think that as the darkness grows, it makes the dim lights that are left seem brighter. And the darker it gets, the brighter the light appears, until it is so luminous, eventually, even falling shadows are filled with it.","author":"Brian K. Friesen","tags":["boat","boating","boats","fiction","fiction-novel","fiction-novels","literary-fiction","literary-fiction-","liveaboard","liveaboards","nautical-fiction","ooligan","ooligan-press","oregon-writers","portland","portland-oregon","sailboat","sailboats","sailing"],"id":30375,"author_id":"Brian+K.+Friesen"},{"text":"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we.","author":"John F. Kennedy","tags":["boats","nature","ocean","sailing","science","sea"],"id":35734,"author_id":"John+F.+Kennedy"},{"text":"Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.","author":"Richard Halliburton","tags":["adrift","direction","education","graduation","guts","humor","inspiration","nerves","sailing","water"],"id":36910,"author_id":"Richard+Halliburton"},{"text":"It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster.","author":"Jimmy Spithill","tags":["perseverance","sailing","victory"],"id":73946,"author_id":"Jimmy+Spithill"},{"text":"Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.","author":"Andrew Rayner","tags":["adventure","islands","ocean","pacific","pacific-islands","pacific-ocean-ocean","sailing","sea"],"id":83130,"author_id":"Andrew+Rayner"},{"text":"She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.","author":"Philip Pullman","tags":["boat","pirates","sail","sailing","sea","seafaring","ship","water"],"id":87217,"author_id":"Philip+Pullman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}