Sailors quotes

“You can't run from the wind. You trim your sails, face the music, and keep going.”
Jeff Bridges - Sheldon 'Skipper'

“Sailing is, like, so not the fastest way to get anywhere.”
Rachel Bilson - Summer Roberts

“Pepe-When I was older, I used to be a sailor. But I drowned in a storm. The waves were huge!
Cleo-Sofi! Paco! Near the shore!
Pepe: It was dark and there was lightning and I didn't know how to swim.”
Yalitza Aparicio - Cleo
Marco Graf - Pepe

“The water was innocent, Caroline. It wasn’t rough seas so much as an unsteady sailor.”
Luke Evans - John Moore

“- Sinbad: Well done, Baronni. I know you will be as good a sailor as you were a genie.
- The Genie: I shall try, captain. I shall try.”
Kerwin Mathews - Sinbad
Richard Eyer - The Genie

“A man alone on a boat is more alone than any man alive.”
Simon McBurney - Sir Francis Chichester

“Unless the Japanese can be stopped, it will be impossible for any of your forty-two wounded sailors to escape.”

George Macready - Dutch Army Captain

“Gentlemen, you are all in a line of elite men, great men, who have defended the world's most enduring sporting record. It's an honor to know you, it's an honor to sail with you. Tradition has it that the first American skipper to ever loose the Cup will replace it with his own head in the trophy case. Gentlemen, my head is in your hands. Please...” (continue)(continue reading)

Cliff Robertson - Morgan Weld

“We sail into the sun at dawn. If we are to die, then with God's grace, let us die as men.”
Benjamin Walker - George Pollard

“You think I'm harsh with you, hey? I've been at sea many years Fletcher, since I was 12, and in that time I've seen many men, many good men fall for island women in these waters. I've never once seen it come out well.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“I can't believe this. Thirty years at sea, and I'm going to die in a bullring.”
Harvey Korman - Captain Blythe

“- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: Mr. Coonan, our boys are submarine sailors, not combat marines.
- Marine Maj. Coonan: The boys onboard that U-boat are sailors too. Your men'll be ready, Lieutenant. I'll train them myself.
- Lt. Commander Mike Dahlgren: You've come to the right boat.”
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler
Keith David - Maj. Matthew Coonan
Bill Paxton - Lt. Cmdr. Mike Dahlgren

“- Austin Powers: Only sailors use condoms, baby.
- Vanessa Kensington: Not in the 90's, Austin.
- Austin Powers: Well they should, those filthy beggars. They go from port to port.”
Mike Myers - Austin Powers
Liz Hurley - Vanessa Kensington

“A diesel loves her oil same as a sailor loves rum.”
Kurt Russell - Captain Ron

“Great! We'll have to sail a raft to Fiji like Thor Heyerdahl!”
Geena Davis - Phyllis

“I wrote the book on sailing. In fact, I am the book on sailing.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Adventure

“- Nathanial Mayweather: Cappy, tell me about all of this. Tell me about the sea. What does it mean to you?
- Captain Greybar: Basically, money. I come from six generations of seamen all with the same goal in life: catch fish, sell 'em, get drunk, and get laid.”
Chris Elliott - Nathanial Mayweather
Ritch Brinkley - Captain Greybar

“Discipline's the thing. A seaman's a seaman, a captain's a captain. And a midshipman is the lowest form of animal life in the British navy.”

Charles Laughton - Bligh

- Roger Murtaugh: A-F-T. Aft.
- Leo Getz: That's a fucking word?
- Roger Murtaugh: In the back of the cabin on the right side, Leo.
- Leo Getz: Why didn't you say that in the first place? I love these people. Put them around boats and water and all of the sudden everything becomes fucking nautical. "Astern. Avast you landlubbers. Man the bilge... (continue)(continue reading)

Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh
Joe Pesci - Leo Getz

“We all wish you every possible happiness, but I think it only fair to tell you in advance exactly what you are in for. Speaking from bitter experience I can only say that the wife of a sailor is most profoundly to be pitied.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross

“You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course. Stick to it, no matter the squalls! And when the time comes you get the chance to really test the cut of your sails, and show what you're made of... well, I hope I'm there, catching some of the light coming off you that day.”
Brian Murray - John Silver

“You think I'm going to swim all the way to Atlanta! I hate... the water. Hoist the anchor mates.”
Vincent Klyn - Fender Tremolo

“- Samuel Pepys: Tell me about your parentage, Miss Gwynn.
- Nell Gwynn: My mum was a whore, my father was in the navy.
- Samuel Pepys: I see.
- Nell Gwynn: That's why I don't never do sailors.”
Hugh Bonneville - Samuel Pepys
Zoë Tapper - Nell Gwynn

“Yes, you do have my permission to stand there quietly and receive a free lesson in sailing. Besides, a ship is no place for a woman.”
Brad Pitt - Sinbad

“You're the skipper now. And the skipper always knows what to do whether he does or not.”
Harvey Keitel - CPO Henry Klough