Precious things Quote by Neal Stephenson

“Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he’d been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing…

— Richard Matheson

“Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“I sat up a bit and looked out over the railing toward the ocean. The sight always took my breath away. The dark green…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“The ship started a school of fliers that skipped along the wave tops like shining silver coins. "These are the ghosts of treasures ost…

— John Steinbeck

“You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures…

— James Joyce

“Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The sand was smooth. The damp morning fog had hardened its top layer and the heat of the day had set it so that…

— Victoria Kahler

“The galleys...had been dirven onto the rocks of Skagos, the isle of unicorns and cannibals where even the Blind Bastard had feared to land.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The small sands in that waste was all there was for the wind to move and it moved with a constant migratory seething upon…

— Cormac McCarthy

“little drops of water little grains of sand make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land”

— Carney

We, too, were but dwellers onthe shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit,the wrecks of snails and cockles. Nevertheless, we were…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The sea was a glorious shade of blue. The cliffs, edged with a narrow strip of golden sand, wound around the cove. Seabirds soared…

— Paul Moxham