Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Virginia Woolf

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

Woodrow Wilson

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

William Wordsworth

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

William Wordsworth

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

William Wordsworth

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

William Sharp

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Gilbert

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

Will Gluck

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

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.

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.

Walt Whitman

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

Saul Williams

They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love

Sarah Hall

We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.

Sarah Dessen

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Roger Mudd

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Robin McKinley

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

Robert Smith

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct.

Robert Lowell

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Wendell Berry

Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.

Wendell Berry

The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.