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Quotes About Foam

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
The shore whispers to the sea: "Write to me what your waves struggle to say." The sea writes in foam again and again and wipes off the lines in a boisterous despair.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The world is the ever-changing foam that floats on the surface of a sea of silence.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Like the foam of the depths of the sea, like the ripple on an unfathomable enigma, a mystery greater-- when I thought of it-- then the curious, inexplicable note of desperate grief in this savage clamour that had swept by us on the river bank, behind the blind whiteness of the fog
~ Joseph Conrad
they grew dark and foamy in the cool.
~ Donna Tartt
I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.
~ Raymond Chandler
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
~ Walter Savage Landor
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
~ Walter de La Mare
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
~ Carl Sandburg
He saw clearly the futility of trying to leave a mark on the shifting planes of reality, like trying to write his name in the foam of an ocean wave.
~ William Lashner
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
~ Robert Bridges
Far beneath the tainted foamThat frets above our peaceful home,We dream in joy and wake in loveNor know the rage that yells above.
~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Bendecida la fuerza de la Roca! Yo tengo el corazón como la espuma
~ Alfonsina Storni
Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!
~ Alfred Austin
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
~ Alton Brown
A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
~ John Millington Synge
A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more...The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and from the crests clots of white foam blew swirling up in the wind to join the gulls.
~ Ken Kesey
Tall latte, double espresso, skim milk, light on the foam, with cinnamon and a shot of raspberry?
~ Kim Harrison
He had foam on his lip, from a long hard pull on a long-neck bottle.
~ Lee Child
foam on his lip, from a long hard pull on a long-neck bottle. Maybe
~ Lee Child
sudsy bubbles
~ Leil Lowndes
Quantum electrodynamics holds that the all-pervading vacuum continuously spawns particles and waves that spontaneously pop into and out of existence on an almost unimaginably short time scale. This churning quantum 'foam,' as some physicists call it, is believed to extend throughout the universe. It fills empty space within the atoms in human bodies, and reaches the emptiest and most remote regions of the cosmos.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Isn't it the sea? No, it's only graveyard Pine-needles, and in a boiling of foam, Still closer,closer... Marche funèbre
~ Anna Akhmatova
Ahí va la pobre, a romperse en él. Lo mismo que se rompe una ola en las rocas. Un poco de espuma y adiós.
~ Fernando Aramburu