Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francesca Lia Block

You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Francesca Lia Block

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Jeanette Winterson

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Jethro Tull

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

George Herbert

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

George Herbert

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Christopher Columbus

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

Christina Rossetti

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Chris Pratt

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

George R. R. Martin

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Fernando Pessoa

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Fernando Pessoa

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Fernando Pessoa

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Ezra Pound

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Francis Drake

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Jean Rhys

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Huey Newton

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

Horace

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while...

George Bernard Shaw

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Fred Brooks

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.

Franz Kafka

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Even though it is a big place, when it is out to sea it can get pretty small.

Every season the proportions of a suit change, the shoulder, the layer, the hips, the shape, ... very, very light.

Someone's going to have to take that big fullback and someone is going to have to seal off the perimeter for us to be successful.