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- Nov 07, 2020
Sea Quotes
The pull of open water.
Some entries here use the sea literally, diving trips through the Red Sea and Pacific, a household still run by a grandfather's old ship discipline long after he'd come ashore, echoing themes found in Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
- Rocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
- Nov 07, 2020
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020