Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

- Andy Coulson

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

- Beverly Cleary

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

- Charles Buxton

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

- Dolly Parton

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

- Euripides

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

- Frank Gehry

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

- Jim Rohn

There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.

- James Spithill

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

- Pete Docter

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

- William Golding

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

- William Osler