Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dylan Thomas

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

Douglas Adams

Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.

Don Williams

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

Craig Thompson

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Cotton Mather

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Clive Barker

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

E. B. White

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

Dwight L. Moody

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

David Wroblewski

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

David Lloyd George

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

David Byrne

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

Delia Smith

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

Anacreon

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

Anita Shreve

In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

Amos Oz

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Amos Oz

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Anne Sexton

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Andrew Lang

. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

Andrew Marvell

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Amy Jo Martin

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

Brian Dawkins

I will never have my best season.

Billy Connolly

I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

Brigham Young

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Antonio Machado

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

Antonio Machado

XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.

Aphra Behn

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Brooks Atkinson

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Edwidge Danticat

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

Edward Young

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Edmund Spenser

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

Elie Wiesel

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.