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Quotes About Sea

Every time I wrote a school scene, I thought of that drama studio, because that's where I was a bit lost at sea.
~ Greg Davies
I love my family, my friends, the hummus, the sea, everything.
~ Dennis Lloyd
Crowds, I'm not good in crowds. I almost had a mental breakdown, I almost lost my cool at Disneyland one time when the park was closing, and I turn around and saw just a sea of people coming at me and a stroller full of kids.
~ Carson Palmer
The Victress was another design by the pioneering American Arthur Piver, whose reputation hadn't been hurt too badly by his own disappearance and presumed death at sea aboard one of his own boats in 1968. His boat might have capsized, but it might also have been run down or suffered any of the mishaps sailors always risk when going to sea.
~ Peter Nichols
There's a sea—a great sea—I love . . . It's where the Gods go to bathe.' 'What Gods?' 'The old ones. Before they died.' 'Gods don't die.' 'Yes, they do.
~ Peter Shaffer
I wash off the night in the water, my scrapes and aches numbed by the sea. My bones have become boughs, all scarred knees and gnarled kuckles. None of us are the same person we once were, since the human body replaces itself every seven years; there have been at least six different mes.
~ Philip Hoare
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
~ Imelda Marcos
The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
~ J. C. Chandor
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
~ Louis L'Amour
In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.
~ Jonathan Lethem
One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Não há uma só coisa no mundo que não seja misteriosa, mas esse mistério é mais evidente em determinadas coisas do que noutras. No mar, na cor amarela, nos olhos dos velhos e na música.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La Historia (que, a semejanza de cierto director cinematográfico, procede por imágenes discontinuas) propone ahora la de una arriesgada taberna, que está en el todopoderoso desierto igual que en alta mar.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Esa vida es nueva para él, y a veces atroz, pero ya está en su sangre, porque lo mismo que los hombres de otras naciones veneran y presienten el mar, así nosotros (también el hombre que entreteje estos símbolos) ansiamos la llanura inagotable que resuena bajo los cascos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The sea, perhaps because of its saltness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.
~ Jose Conrad
Good night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours.While sky and sea and landAnd earth's foundations standAnd heaven endures.
~ A. E. Housman
Where had the Taras and Megans and Ians come from? Buried in his work, had he missed some clandestine migration of Celts from across the sea?
~ Aaron Elkins
La générosité universelle est une langue sans mots, une vue sans vision, un corps sans acte, une preuve sans argumentation, c'est une source qui vient de la mer et des mystères de la mer.
~ Abû'l-Hasan Kharaqânî
Korean Sea, and it was the
~ Adam Johnson
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
~ Adela Florence Nicolson
We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.
~ Adrian McKinty
We who of old left the booming surge of the Aegean lie here in the mid-plain of Ecbatana: farewell, renowned Eretria once our country; farewell, Athens nigh to Euboea; farewell, dear sea.
~ Plato
There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer