“... The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality… — William Styron Copy Share Image
And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to… — Jessalyn Gilsig Copy Share Image
To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My soul, the seas are rough, and thou a stranger In these false coasts; O keep aloof; there's danger; Cast forth thy… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet. The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet. Our most beautiful days we haven't… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
“The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights?… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your… — Connie Chung Copy Share Image
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image