blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream. — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“She took the sea with her Not beaches but the grey relentless Irish sea, its rhythm and the crying gulls.” — Caroline Davies Copy Share Image
“I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.” — Rene Cazelles Copy Share Image
That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world…There is naked Nature, inhumanly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the… — Edward Conlon Copy Share Image
“The dozen gulls by the shoreline came to meet him, none saying a word. He felt only that he was welcome and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“To count a few gulls makes the journey happy. In the reedy bend, under the willow bank, My wife and children smile… — Wu Cheng-en Copy Share Image
It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“The birds swoop nearer. They are gulls. Why, then, We must be close to the ocean! Indeed, The sounds of your music… — Landis Everson Copy Share Image
“The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Many Fujiyamas lie in a row along our coast to the south. As the distance increases, their sombre blackness seems to be… — Christiane Ritter Copy Share Image
The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“White-crested waves crash on the shore. The masts sway violently, every which way. In the gray sky the gulls are circling like… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“So. Avelaval. My leaves have drifted from me. All. But one clings still. I'll bear it on me. To remind me of.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Gulls fly overhead While waves slap against rocks From dusk till dawn.” — Abigail George Copy Share Image
“Closer at hand, the wheeling gulls were as surly and lackadaisical as the day promised to make most men.” — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well. — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
