Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gleick

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

Izaak Walton

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Izaak Walton

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Izaak Walton

You cannot lose what you never had.

Isaac Asimov

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Isaac Asimov

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

Horatio Nelson

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Homer

On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

Homer

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

Jerry Bruckheimer

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year.

Gustavo Kuerten

I am 29 and if by the end of the season I haven't rediscovered my top form, I will stop playing.

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.

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.

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 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.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

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.

Vita Sackville-West

There are no signposts in the sea.

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 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.

Wilbur Smith

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Whoopi Goldberg

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.