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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.
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Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
- British Columbia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing prepares you for shooting in the sea. Some days the sea is choppy, some days the waves are long. When there is no wind, it's fantastic to shoot, but your brain is burning because of the heat. You are shooting hand-held and taking a crane on a boat, which is risky since you can get toppled over.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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- Nov 07, 2020