Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

He is very athletic. The thing with Sean is that he has so much upside.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Matt Moore

He's going to be the man. He has everything to be a star quarterback. Sean is going to be a stud.

Richard Hough

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Sarah Orne Jewett

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

Wallace Stevens

I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

Vivien Leigh

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

William Henry Hudson

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

William Howard Taft

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Willa Cather

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Vivienne Westwood

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

Virginia Woolf

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Werner Herzog

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

Samuel Beckett

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

Salvador Dali

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

Salman Rushdie

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

W. S. Gilbert

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

William Cowper

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

Venerable Bede

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

Robert James Waller

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

Roberto Bolano

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

Vita Sackville-West

There are no signposts in the sea.

Walt Whitman

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.