Sterling Hayden famous quotes

03-24-2025

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Wind #Boat #Shore
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Sailing #Democracy #Ships
I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine â€” and before we know it our lives are gone.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Men #Sea #Discipline
The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Dream #Lying #Years
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea 'cruising' it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Mean #Sea #Play
There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Hollywood #Enough
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Art #Enemy #Mind
There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".
-- Sterling Hayden

#Men #Actors #Want
What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by.
-- Sterling Hayden

#Lying #Years #Pyramids
Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'
-- Sterling Hayden

#Men #Order #Years

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