Atlantic Quotes
180 quotes by 153 authors
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets…
— Herman Melville
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For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.
— James N. Frey
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It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon…
— Gregory Maguire
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You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other…
— Mark Twain
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From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All…
— Abraham Lincoln
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That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have…
— Gideon Defoe
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The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had…
— Marian Keyes
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A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But…
— C.S. Lewis
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The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice…
— Cassandra Clare
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I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes…
— Kelley Armstrong
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We are hidiously rich Annabelle-- and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you consider one of them? If you like, I'll have one…
— Lisa Kleypas
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She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues…
— William Gibson
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It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural.…
— Holly Black
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As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened…
— Cassandra Clare
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Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a…
— Anthony Horowitz
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You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific.…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are…
— Andrea Gibson
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Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across…
— Annabel Pitcher
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There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more…
— Edward Teller
Who Wrote These Atlantic Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 180 Atlantic Quotes, led by these top contributors: