Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Rather

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Cynthia Ozick

Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

Dan Millman

We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.

Dan Millman

Personal and collective awakening are one and the same - when a raindrop joins the sea, the sea also merges with the raindrop.

Dan Millman

As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

Cormac McCarthy

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

E. W. Howe

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

Dwight L. Moody

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

Seamus Heaney

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

Mathieu Schneider

The only thing that was going to make this a successful season was winning the Stanley Cup. We didn't live up to our expectations.

David Wroblewski

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

David Lloyd George

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

David Byrne

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

David Letterman

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

David Bohm

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

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.

O. J. Simpson

We were the Seattle Moroners, ... not the Mariners.

Jon Favreau

We're trying to find a seat on the bus.

Curtis Martin

We're trying to come together as a unit and turn this season around. It's getting late.

Bob Hill

To me, Seattle has always been a cornerstone of the NBA. It would be shame if the team had to leave.

Thomas Moore

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

We have got to win three more in a row. Our tournament season starts now.

We want to end the season how we started it ? by winning.

Evo Morales

In Bolivia, we want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

Kim Wilde

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

Jules Verne

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Jules Verne

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

Nicholas Sparks

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Ivan Turgenev

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

Isak Dinesen

Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Iris Murdoch

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.