Quotes About Ocean

Posidonius O'Fluctuary!

Thalatta! Thalatta!

Llegan, las olas. Los hipocampos crestiblancos, tascando, embridados en fúlgidos céfiros, los corceles de Mananaan.

Her hair smelled like the Caribbean.

The clouds were as yellow as sulfur and roiling in thick curds all the way to the horizon, as though we were trapped beneath an ocean that was sliding over the edges of the earth.

The question of race was like the power of the moon in my house. It's what made the river flow, the ocean swell, and the tide rise, but it was a silent power, intractable, indomitable, indisputable, and thus completely ignorable.

I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me." Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.

He's basically putting on a private doo-wop show for the seagulls. Then he stops, spreads out his arms, and adds in the harmony: "In the still of the ni-i-i-ight!

No one ever leaves alive The house at 7 Ocean Drive

A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that

life-size plaster mermaids

Mare's tails and mackerel scales.

shipshape honeymoon hotel.

Nuestra Señora del Mar de Oro

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

The sea is the universal sewer.

About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

It's such a huge playing field, especially with the wind and shifting tides and only three women out. It's almost like you are fending for yourself out there.

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.

The ocean has limits, but true love does not.

To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.