By The Sea Quotes

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

That job [on Out to Sea], more than any I've ever done, I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. And not only that, but I had a great part. So it was just beyond fun on every level.

[Out To Sea] was like a dream come true for me, because I got to work with Jack [Lemmon] and Walter [Matthau], who were unbelievable.

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.

Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.

Today my son and I went for a stroll and saw the sea lions and watched the sunset and played ball in the park with our dog.

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

the sea is made of blood

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Who has not felt how sadly sweet The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?