![The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-dark-cloud-which-had-been-cleared-by-the-phoenician-discoveries-and-finally.jpg)
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ocean piano goal
I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive. Jane Campion
ocean achievement storm
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. Charles Kettering
ocean pebbles affected
The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble. Blaise Pascal
ocean sailor tiny
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. Anna Freud
ocean care needs
We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do. Sylvia Earle
ocean book thinking
The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans. Peter Benchley
ocean moving earth
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. Peggy Noonan
ocean editing giving
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.
ocean sea bells
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink-- in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Marianne Moore
darkness difficult eyes lead light people standing tough
This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust. Jay Garner
dark diamond salesman
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. Arthur Miller
dark symbiosis kind
Theres some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service. Don Novello
dark desire wish
Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower
dark get-better painting
The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat. Colleen Atwood
dark light soul
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Dalai Lama
dark pet suffering
...Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human... Dick Gregory
dark family-and-friends sides
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with. Dev Patel
dark world beacons
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. Desmond Tutu
discovery found
Eureka! (I have found it!) Archimedes
discovery quests world
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
discovery years shopping
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus! Iris Apfel
discovery led perspective
Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side. Jim Fox
discovery self competition
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information Friedrich August von Hayek
discovery use fundamentals
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before. John Charles Polanyi
discovery may dread
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. Joseph Heller
discovery ideas creating
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. Joseph Priestley
discovery luxury people
Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people. Julianne Nicholson