The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“I wanna be your vacuum cleaner Breathing in your dust I wanna be your Ford Cortina I will never rust If you… — Arctic Monkeys Copy Share Image
“Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The fact that we're all hyphenating our names suggests that we are afraid of being assimilated. I was talking on the BBC… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Colonel Matterson reading from wrinkled scripture of that long yellow hand: The flag is America. America is the plum. The peach. The… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
“I smelled of gin. Not just casually, as if I had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the… — Joyce Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“He discovered that a slight oscillation, less than 1°F, in the surface temperatures of the oceans—a cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean… — Linda Marsa Copy Share Image
“A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
We need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific… — Laird Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“But compared with much of the rest of the world, Europe is a beacon of enlightenment. Among the many amazing and depressing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
“Eighty years ago on July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared while… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
