Quotes tagged ‘Ocean’

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”

— Rachel Carson, amazon.com

“Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier....This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of u…”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“Isn’t it strange, the way time moves? I could stand here and watch the sea crash beneath me for hours and it would feel like only minutes had passed.”

— Sjana Elise Earp, instagram.com

“Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire world. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs but what a ship is...what the Black Pearl really is...is freedom.”

— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com

“But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…”

— Francis Drake, amazon.com

“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

“I wonder where it will go, whether it will survive, will be cast back here on Rota, or taken hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles to another island in the Pacific. Ten minutes more ad I can no longer see it--it is launched, like a little ship, on its journey on the high seas.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to return soup at a deli.”

— Ron Hague, Ron Hauge, Charlie rubin, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.”

— Karl Pilkington, goodreads.com

“What did the oceans say when they met?Nothing, they just waved at each other.”

— Kappaman1902, reddit.com

“I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they're getting sicker every year.”

— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org

“It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it has left you gasping.”

— Sarah Kay, amazon.com

“Why is the ocean so salty? Because the land doesn't wave back.”

— wackoclown, reddit.com

“The girl's a work of art and I can't help but stare With the smile like the sunset and an ocean as her hair”

— Trey Songz, open.spotify.com

“What lies at the bottom of the ocean and shakes? A nervous wreck.”

— FuriousSleep, reddit.com

“It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you’re never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the…”

— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.com

“I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.”

— Sherman Alexie, newyorker.com

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”

— Holly Black, amazon.com

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”

— Holly Black, amazon.com

“I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.”

— Sherman Alexie, amazon.com