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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
Although I loved 'Black Sails,' 'Lost in Space' was like holiday camp after that.
If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
You don't want to throw out a good idea and have nobody get excited about it. It takes the wind out of your sails.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.
I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
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.
'Black Sails' was an amazing experience, but it was a really tough show for me to do. After four years, it was pretty exhausting because it was such a huge production.
Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.
When you do a record like 'Talk,' and you're happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn't sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your sails a little.
You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.
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!
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
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.
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.
I grew up in Florida, started fishing with my dad going down to the Everglades and around the state, plus some offshore stuff for sails and wahoo - but I never really got the bug until my husband and I went float fishing on the Snake River at Jackson Hole for trout - I've been pretty much addicted ever since.
