Horatio Nelson Quotes

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

I get seasick quite badly.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

Most actors are very deeply passionate about their line of work. I suppose there are probably people who sell insurance policies that are passionate about it, but I'm thinking the ratio is a little higher for actors. But, I may be wrong.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

I want to be a homer. I'm getting paid for something that I love to do. I would do it for nothing.

I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Winter hurled more wind and rain at the city than it ever had before. Clouds dashed about in all directions emptying their thunder, hail and rain. The horizon was choked in fog.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.

I have to walk dogs." "Oh," Gansey replied, sounding deflated. "Well, okay." "But it'll only take an hour." "Oh," he repeated, about fourteen shades brighter. "Shall I pick you up, then?

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.