Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard Wilbur

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Russell Brand

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Roz Savage

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rose George

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

Tupac Shakur

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Tracy Kidder

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Richard Gere

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

Tracy Morgan

Live every week like it's shark week.

Virginia Woolf

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

Neal Shusterman

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

Kurt Busch

It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

Luigi Pirandello

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Mark Cuban

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Mike Birbiglia

Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?

Kim Harrison

Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.

Warren Farrell

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

George Gaylord Simpson

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered.

Paul Watson

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Joseph Campbell

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

James Lovelock

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Bryson

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.