Quotes of: Pacific-ocean Keyword

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

Angela Kinsey

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

Angela Kinsey

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Imre Lakatos

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

You were, are cactus tourism. meeting you: granular fractals borrowed from oceans.

Virginia Petrucci

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

William Arthur Ward

The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear to the thunder of the surf. The bright sands, the ...

Return to Paradise

I stopped rowing for a moment to glug down some water, but it was warm, tasted of plastic, and failed to refresh. I yearned for an ice-cold drink—preferably one with bubbles and alcohol in it.

Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman's Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific

A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space a...

A Tale for the Time Being

Sure that there was an attainable bliss somewhere beyond the decimal point in the p of his sexual trysts, I felt that maybe he had already attained what I was looking for, a more instinctual regard for sex, an equality among thirsts. He had done what...

Pacific Rimming

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a...

Lyall Watson

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, ...

Mona Simpson

At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a profess...

Edgar Mitchell

John Smith: [to Porter] Prison is not about street gangs. It's about race. The Hispanics are cut in half. You got the northerners and the southerners. Trust me, they're always at war. With the blacks, you got a mixture of gangs who forget their beefs...

Felon

Butterfield: Twenty-two robberies. Over four hundred thousand dollars in losses. More in delays. The Southern Pacific will have Ben Wade convicted in a federal court. Hanged in public. An example made. And we will pay to make it happen. Ben Wade: Y'a...

3:10 to Yuma

I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the...

Art Donovan

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

Five Stories

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.

The Storyteller

I want an ocean job, but they’re hard to land.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom