Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Campion

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.

Charles Kettering

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Blaise Pascal

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Anna Freud

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Sylvia Earle

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

Thomas Jefferson

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

Tony Robbins

Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.

Tony Blair

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

Remy de Gourmont

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Eric Clapton

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

Elvis Costello

I woke up and one of us was crying.

Imelda Staunton

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

Jack Kerouac

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

Jack Kerouac

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. They didn’t know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday, and stretching out our hands in the same, same way

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ratan Tata

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together

Tom Waits

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

Sam Keen

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

Susan Powter

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

Susan B. Anthony

Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.

Sukarno

It was [the concept of] nationalism that Indonesia was established on. Not the Javanese, not the Sumatran, not the Bornean, Sulawesi, Bali or others, but the Indonesian, that together became the foundation of one nationale staat (nation-state).

Studs Terkel

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.