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Quotes About Sea

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The east wind is blowing all the water out." "The hell with the east wind," Thomas Hudson said. As he said the words, they sounded like a basic and older blasphemy than any that could have to do with the Christian religion. He knew that he was speaking against one of the great friends of all people who go to sea. So since he had made the blasphemy he did not apologize. He repeated it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everything about the old man was old with the sole exception of his eyes. His eyes resembled the colour of the sea and were joyous and unconquered.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy. "If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy," he said aloud. "But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball
~ Ernest Hemingway
He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But the happiness of the summer began to drain out of him as when the tide changes on the flats and the ebb begins in the channel that opens out to sea. He watched the sea and the line of beach and he noticed that the tide had changed and the shore birds were working busily well down the slope of new wet sand. The breakers were diminishing as they receded. He looked a long way up along the shore and then went into the house.
~ Ernest Hemingway
virada para cima. A ponta farpeada do arpão projetava-se em ângulo no dorso do peixe e o mar estava colorido com o sangue vermelho do seu coração. Primeiro a água se tornara muito escura naquele mar tão azul com mais de uma milha
~ Ernest Hemingway
of Esquire contained an article entitled "On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," written by the magazine's
~ Ernest Hemingway
cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do you know why King Arthur's knights could not see the mountain peak of Sea Fell? I shook my head no, Because--he smiled gently--that's where they were standing.
~ Ethan Hawke
Dreaming, not keeping lookout, feeling alone, and above, and apart, watching the dawn creep like a painted dream over the sky and sea which slept together.
~ Eugene O'Neill
More dangerous ghost pirates. More krakens. Ghost pirate krakens.
~ Andrew Rowe
Don't like fish. They eat drowned sailors – don't seem right to eat them in return.
~ Andrew Wareham
Still, be that as it may, the young master was at sea sinking Froggies, and that was a good thing, it was what Froggies were for, when all was said and done; no doubt it was God's punishment on them for not being English.
~ Andrew Wareham
These new songs that I sing Were islands in the sea That never missed a spring, No, nor a century. A starry voyager, I to these islands come Knowing not by what star I am at last come home.
~ Andrew Young
The sea is free and open. Trade is free. Profit is sacred. Love the trade and profit of your neighbour like your own. To hinder someone's trading and profiting is to break the laws of nature.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Yet this faint sound was enough to wake the witcher – or maybe it only tore him from the half-slumber in which he rocked monotonously, as though travelling though fathomless depths, suspended between the sea bed and its calm surface amidst gently undulating strands of seaweed. He
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It is mostly when we are very young that we take the greatest delight in the sad songs; those who have felt the real bitterness of sorrow are glad to bury it deeply away, and do not wish it wakened, as sailors' wives love a place best where they cannot hear the sound of the sea.
~ Angela Brazil
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.
~ Anita Shreve
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
~ John Dyer
I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.
~ Brandon Webb
Robert Altman was a very jovial guy and obviously a famed improviser and perhaps less effective in post-production, which is like the crystallising process. So I found myself at sea often with him because we'd have conversations about what music is, and in the end, I don't know how interested he was?
~ Thomas Newman
I'm not an experienced sailor.
~ Alfie Allen