Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Falwell

AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers ... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jeremy Clarkson

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

Ernest Hemingway

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Ernest Hemingway

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

Ernest Hemingway

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

Ernest Hemingway

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

Ernest Hollings

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

Ernest Istook

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Florence Scovel Shinn

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

Herbert Hoover

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Henny Youngman

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea.

Cassandra Clare

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

James Gleick

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

Izaak Walton

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Izaak Walton

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Izaak Walton

You cannot lose what you never had.

Isaac Asimov

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Isaac Asimov

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Georges Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Cuvier

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

Georges Cuvier

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Jean Racine

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

Jim Gerlach

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Jim Harrison

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

Jerome K. Jerome

So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Perhaps the time has come to formulate a moral code which would govern our relations with the great creatures of the sea as well as with those on dry land. That this will come to pass is my dear wish.

Jackson Browne

Rock me on the water Sister will you soothe my fevered brow Rock me on the water I'll get down to the sea somehow

Christopher Lasch

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Christopher Isherwood

The sea only drowns its lovers.

Fritz Sauckel

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

Gilbert Arenas

I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level,