"It's out there at sea that you are really yourself."

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Source : John Guzzwell, Vito Dumas, Joshua Slocum (1976). “Great voyages in small boats: solo circumnavigations”, John De Graff

Vito Dumas

#Sea Quotes #Boat Quotes

“Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.”

Source : "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". www.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

Source : "Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth". Book by Hermann Hesse , p. 123, 1919.
“A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.”
“My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.”
“Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.”
“I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.”
“A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.”
“Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”

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