Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Tori Amos

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world

Tracie Bennett

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

Rudyard Kipling

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Robert James Waller

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

Roberto Bolano

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

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.

Willa Cather

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Vivienne Westwood

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

Virginia Woolf

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Werner Herzog

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

Samuel Beckett

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

Salvador Dali

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

Salman Rushdie

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.