Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

Dido Armstrong

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again...

Dennis Hopper

When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.

Edgar Cayce

Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

Edna Ferber

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

Bette Midler

I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

We're just not throwing it in the ocean right now. We're simply not shooting well and at this point, it's mental.

William Shakespeare

My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces. And all the helpless souls within her drowned. All save one. A lady. Whose soul is greater than the ocean, and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace. Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story. For she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be Viola.

Ben Okri

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

Brendan Fraser

Careers go in cycles. I've plateau-ed. I've been at the bottom of the ocean... You win some, you lose some...

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.

James Theodore Bent

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

Charles Kettering

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

Jami Attenberg

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Anton Chekhov

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Ban Ki-moon

For too long we have tried to consume our way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted lands and oceans, climate change, growing scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion... that is more respectful of the planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind to human beings, but we have not been kind to nature.

Dean Koontz

I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

Craig Ferguson

Ocean's 13 is all about cool people having a good time, and who doesn't want to see that? Well you, apparantly, 'cause you're watching me.

Bootsy Collins

It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.

Bob Dylan

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Blaise Pascal

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Barbara Block

Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

Brooke Burke

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Eckhart Tolle

Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Paul Watson

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

Ani Difranco

I can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in.

Andrew Marvell

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...

Allen Iverson

The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

Alison McGhee

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

Ann Brashares

The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.

Andrea Gibson

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.