Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quotes

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.

If you have wind it becomes more difficult than you think.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.