Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

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

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

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.