Quotes About Currents
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.
~ Neal Stephenson
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Hitler's one genuine obsession was the underground currents. He believed in the theory of the hollow earth, Hohlweltlehre.
~ Umberto Eco
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The Templars realized that the secret lay not only in possessing the global map of the currents, but also in knowing the critical point, the Omphalos, the Umbilicus Telluris, the Navel of the World, the Source of Command.
~ Umberto Eco
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Hoc spumans mundanas obvallat Pelagus oras terrestres amniosis fluctibus cudit margines. Saxeas undosis molibus irruit avionas. Infima bomboso vertice miscet glareas asprifero spergit spumas sulco, sonoreis frequenter quatitur flabris
~ Umberto Eco
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For a moment she felt she was about to reconcile this present time, the words of the man now kissing her, with that time in the past; that she was about to understand the secret currents of her life, about to glimpse what always remains hidden – those depths of the heart where one's fate is decided.
~ Vasily Grossman
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I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.
~ Gillian Welch
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Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.
~ Lisa Murkowski
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I had produced a striking phenomenon with my grounded transmitter and was endeavoring to ascertain its true significance in relation to the currents propagated through the earth.
~ Nikola Tesla
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As are all living things. All are caught in the river of power that is the Force, trapped by its currents. Only those who wield the dark side of the Force are capable of changing those currents; they are riverbreakers. They do not surrender to fate. They are its foes.) The
~ Chuck Wendig
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But here, none too soon, are the second-hand bookshops. Here we find anchorage in these thwarting currents of being; here we balance ourselves after the splendours and miseries of the streets.
~ Virginia Woolf
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water and strong currents, appearing to be a strait and the mouth of a big gulf that might be discharging into it.
~ Laurence Bergreen
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Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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The pilot of any plane will agree that when an aircraft is flying with the currents of the atmosphere, the time to get from one place to another can be much shorter. However, when the plane is flying against the flow, it endures a rough ride, and wind resistance can add hours to the flight.
~ Gregg Braden
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Posidonius O'Fluctuary!
~ James Joyce
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As he grew stronger in the dark side, the profane world became a stranger and stranger place, swept by currents he'd had no previous awareness of and populated by vaguely outlined life-forms he saw as magnitudes of the Force.
~ James Luceno
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Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
~ Philip Pullman
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I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.
~ Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Likewise, what emphasis should be put on great individuals versus on cultural currents has long been a matter of dispute;
~ Walter Isaacson
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Unlike the Western world of a surprising Creation, of man at war with nature, the world of Confucius transformed by Taoist and Buddhist currents saw man at home among transformations, procreations, and re-creations.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.
~ Lou Reed
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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
~ William James
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I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, social structures, and so on - and the decisions that people have to make. At the heart of all these great decisions to go to war, there are human beings who have to say, 'Yes, let's do it,' or 'No, we won't do it.'
~ Margaret MacMillan
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Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents
~ Paulo Coelho
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All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, That I, being governed by the watery moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world.
~ William Shakespeare
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