Atlantic Quotes
180 quotes by 153 authors
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The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...
— Heinrich Heine
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In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of…
— Wernher von Braun
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New…
— Horace Walpole
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the…
— Lewis Mumford
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And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in…
— Elizabeth Olsen
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Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These…
— Keith Olbermann
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The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European…
— James Monroe
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort…
— N. T. Wright
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If Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered…
— Dave Barry
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The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because…
— Genie Francis
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It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across…
— Nick Clooney
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I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now,…
— Alex Garland
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The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would…
— Stanley Ho
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India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will…
— Richard Branson
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I never pay attention to errors in the Minor Leagues. Derek Jeter made 43 errors in the South Atlantic League, and I didn't care. With…
— Jim Bowden
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I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
— Antony Hewish
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
— Martin Cruz Smith
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Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the…
— Dave Barry
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But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world…
— Hugh Grant
Who Wrote These Atlantic Quotes
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