Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milton Berle

My wife calls our waterbed the Dead Sea.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Kate Chopin

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

Julian Assange

Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

Kim Edwards

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

Ivan Turgenev

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

Isak Dinesen

Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Iris Murdoch

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Igor Stravinsky

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

Idi Amin

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

George Herbert

There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Jean Dubuffet

The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

Horatio Nelson

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Homer

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

Homer

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year.

Gustavo Kuerten

I am 29 and if by the end of the season I haven't rediscovered my top form, I will stop playing.

Joshua Prager

I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.

I don't want to get into anything technical because I'm not a doctor. But it is season ending.

I can make it the whole season like this,

Brian Ching

I don't look at it as an all-or-nothing, make-or-break game. I don't think I have to do it all here, but I think doing well here and showing well in the season is very important.

Humphrey Gilbert

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Howard Thurman

There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of human beings ebbing and flowing like the tides of the sea.

Howard Blum

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

Honore de Balzac

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

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.