Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Clarice Lispector

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

Clarice Lispector

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.

Elizabeth Strout

Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)

Elizabeth I

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

Bayard Taylor

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

Steve Spurrier

Six and five, ... We thought 6-5 would be a wonderful season for this team.

Brian May

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

Brian Ferneyhough

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Baruch Spinoza

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

Augusten Burroughs

I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

Ayrton Senna

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

Charles Bukowski

the sea is made of blood

We've still a lot to do before the season starts.

Edward Abbey

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

Edward Abbey

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Edward Abbey

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Eleanora Duse

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is. Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Anthony Williams

Sean Kelley's good, but our O-line is where it is, ... Without that line, Sean Kelley's stuck in the backfield.

Teddy Atlas

Seattle doesn't look like an underdog to me.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

She's really re-discovered her talent for singing by singing to Sean Preston.

W. S. Gilbert

She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.

The PD is over now. We've got a new season to play now, and we need to go 3-0 to get to where we want to be.

Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress.

The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

Lyle Lovett

A woman comes to a table, and you're supposed to get up. Period. But I don't always do it. In general, you're supposed to do it every time. But sometimes you're seated against the wall, and it's awkward.

Derrick Brooks

(We) still have a lot to accomplish. That's something to think about when the season is over.

Ashley Scott

I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.