Quotes About Ocean

So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.

Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the secession from one frame to another can hinder a sense of resolution. Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.

The Lab hopped up on the picnic table, his coat matted with wet sand. He walked over and sat down next to me, looking out at the ocean as if to say, Pretty nice, huh? I took quick stock of my world as I stood there—thatched pub, clean bed, cool pint of stout, a Labrador—and it was pretty nice, indeed. hole 199

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

I love the ocean. Anywhere near the ocean will do. Preferably the Atlantic Ocean.

If you have the ocean and you have your board, nothing matters.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

I never liked going in the ocean.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.