Quotes of: Ocean Keyword

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Arthur C. Clarke

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

H. P. Lovecraft

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Neneh Cherry

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Peter Benchley

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

Judd Nelson

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Crossing the ocean is secondary, planning how to pass the tides is the goal.

Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Love

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Werner Herzog

Imagine a vast and glittering ocean seen from a great height. It stretches to the clear curved limit of every angle of horizon, the sun burning on a billion tiny wavelets. Now imagine a smooth blanket of cloud above the ocean, a shell of black velvet...

Consider Phlebas

My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of t...

The Brothers Karamazov

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us...

To Hear The Ocean Sigh

I don’t for a moment think I am any braver or better than anybody else. This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the strength to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me wi...

Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her bro...

The Sketch Book

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the ...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Until now, I've never been able to see while I fly, and I feel a dizzying lightness as I look out at the land below us. this The stars have come to the earth, and the ocean has turned over the ground; dark waves meet the sky. They are unmoving, barel...

Reached

...'Space' seemed a blasphemous libel for this empyrean ocean of radiance in which they swam. He could not call it 'dead'; he felt life pouring into him from it every moment. How indeed should it be otherwise, since out of this ocean the worlds and a...

C.S. Lewis

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesti...

John F. Kennedy

People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth's water is there. It's the blue heart of the planet — we...

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