By The Sea Quotes

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.

Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

My wife calls our waterbed the Dead Sea.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.

You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.