Background Quote by Julian Barratt

I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of…

— Charles Lyell

Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem…

— Lucas Till

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill…

— David Mitchell

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Maatsuyker, the wild island south of Tasmania where it rained most days of the year and the chickens blew into the sea during storms.”

— M.L. Stedman

It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come…

— Jamie O'Neill

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and…

— Derek Jacobi

Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

— William Wordsworth

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was…

— Limmy

“What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply…

— Lewis Carroll

“The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery…

— Robert Browning

“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.”

— Charlotte Brontë