Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Newton

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

Isabel Allende

Barrabas came to us by the sea.

Gregory Bateson

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

He started off this season as a confident, veteran quarterback.

Ron Jaworski

If nothing else, it's going to be an interesting season in Philadelphia.

Louis Agassiz

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth

Kim Clijsters

I never thought I could have a season like this.

Clint Bowyer

I need as much seat time as I can. Because most of these tracks I am going to, I have never been to before.

Kelly Rowan

In the first season, (Kirsten) seemed really together, but there's this undercurrent of 'something's got to be up.' And (last) season you got to see kind of the underbelly of her,

Integrating search into those other applications ... makes it very seamless for people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated

Chris White

I look at the season in two parts,

They try to get a seat at a lot of tables to have a dialogue, and they do spend money.

John Wesley

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

Scott Spencer

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

Mercedes McCambridge

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

Michael Morpurgo

That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Michael Lewis

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

Henry Adams

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Helen Hunt Jackson

O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Henry Beston

The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.

Henry Beston

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Helge Ingstad

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.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Pat Metheny

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

Pablo Neruda

I need the sea because it teaches me

Plautus

The sea is certainly common to all.

Plato

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

Lech Kaczynski

We want the best possible relations with Russia, of course. But at the same time, we are very vigilant when it comes to the German-Russian relationship. The reasons for this bilateral pipeline through the Baltic Sea were purely political.

John Updike

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.