Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Redford

People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.

Richard Hough

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Ryan Hall

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

Russell Brand

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

Robert Ballard

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Robert Ballard

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

Richard Linklater

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

Raymond E. Feist

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

Richard Francis Burton

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Richard Burton

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Sarah Hall

We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.

Sarah Dessen

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Roger Mudd

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Robin McKinley

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

Robert Smith

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Robert Lowell

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Sara Teasdale

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

Sarah Orne Jewett

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

Wallace Stevens

I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

William Henry Hudson

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Washington Irving

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

William Styron

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

William Randolph Hearst

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

William Irwin Thompson

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

William C. Bryant

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

William Butler Yeats

For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

William Butler Yeats

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

Walter Winchell

Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.