Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain no valleys at all, or a completely different system. Yet we now stand at the shore line contemplating the fine spacing of valleys and their even contact with the sea. How easy it is to be misled and to assume that no other landscape could possibly have arisen.

This was it. As a senior, the most important thing to do is to win and keep the season going.

We try to stay healthy. We try to get everyone to make it to the season, through the season and beyond.

Henry Hudson

We're trying to get another 1991 season going. This is just a stepping stone.

Tara VanDerveer

You get to this point, and you don't want the season to end.

Robin Hobb

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Tom Brady

There's no better way to end the season than with a win over the Dolphins.

Dave Roberts

What a season. I've never been through a season like this.

Allen Iverson

We just need everyone to contribute. We feel like this is a whole new season for us.

We just want to keep our season going as long as possible.

Matt LeBlanc

We just want to come back from an 0-10 season and we've been working on that in the off-season,

Don Williams

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

Craig Thompson

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Cotton Mather

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Clive Barker

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

E. B. White

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

Andrew Marvell

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Amy Jo Martin

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Alejandro Amenabar

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.

Aldous Huxley

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

Alexander MacLaren

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

Alexander McCall Smith

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

Dylan Thomas

I sang in my chains like the sea

Dylan Thomas

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

Douglas Adams

Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.

Dwight L. Moody

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

Douglas William Jerrold

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Delia Smith

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.