For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's… — Max Blumenthal Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
He is my other eyes that can see above the clouds; my other ears that hear above the winds. He is the… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like the silence under the sea; No cries announcing birth, No… — E. J. Pratt Copy Share Image
“Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn’t afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
America's a funny place. Every time I've come over it just feels absolutely gigantic and massive. I've always had good shows there,… — Conor O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it… — William James Copy Share Image
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Whether you have a small team or a large team, you'll always have a percentage of people telling you to do the… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
The construction of permanent sea walls can be taken up only in places where there is sea erosion due to heavy anthropogenic… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the… — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
As soon as that little "ba-da-da-dink-dink" at the beginning of "Under the Sea" starts I think to myself: "Here we go! Let's… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of… — Sheikh Hasina Copy Share Image
I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Nothing prepares you for shooting in the sea. Some days the sea is choppy, some days the waves are long. When there… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“And the moment she held that diary in her hands, she summoned all her demons at once. The moment she opened it… — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
