459 Sea Quotes for You to Enjoy

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. Robert Browning

Strength Up Tumultuous Breaks Land Sea Loaded

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. Robert Falcon Scott

Slowly Over Freezing Surely Sea

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. Robert Redford

Strong Seen Feeling Lost Gone Air Slide Everywhere Kid Out Bad Strong Feeling City Angeles Had Knew Bought Identity Because Los Los Angeles Lot Off Up Very Green Cement Wanted Little Land Little Kid Sea Twenties Suddenly Grown Grown-Up Early

I dread my trial at the pearly gates - knowing my luck, I'll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views. Robert Rinder

Will Cloud Luck Nun Trial Dread Blameless Hot Prime Knowing Heels Straight Sea Views Who Gates

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea. Roger Michell

You Made Out Wreck Only Like Understand Coming Itself Begun Any Story Room Cutting Really Cutting Room Sea Shows Film

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. Roger Mudd

Change Ethics Late Television Though Administration Carter Industry Judgement Editorial Reagan Go However Began Sea Sea Change

I'd say that 'In the Heart of the Sea' is the most challenging movie I've made. It was tough to figure out how to lead this large cast into some very sensitive, intense, emotional scenes. Ron Howard

For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19 other holy books - were copied and passed down in the various Jewish communities from generation to generation. Ronen Bergman

Generation Down Other Books Torah Thousand Thousand Years Various Written Dead Parts Passed Were Years Five After Scriptures Holy Holy Scriptures Sea Communities Copied Jewish

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky. Ronit Roy

Job Became Rock Arts Quitting After Sea

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power. Rory Bremner

Politics Truth Great Satire World Seriously Power Analysis Cries Our Out Distracted Insight Take Drown Unto Greater Rediscover Understand Tradition Issues Scorn Than Tumble Bread While Should Sea Speaking Harder British

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat. Rose George

Fruit Will Ripen Never Supply Ships Bananas Green Goes Being Exploited Sea Used Who Captain Meat Fast

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee. Rosemary Mahoney

Edge India Atlantic Various River New New England Been Years Up Ireland Grew Places Sea Avid England Many Including

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. Ruth Park

Morning Sky Back Out Hot Come Like Tide Withdrew Revelations Still Up Quietly Did Roll Scroll Sea Event Spectacular

The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin. Sabine Baring-Gould

Resort Brittany Considerable Distances Favourite Eaten Throughout Retreats Islands North Which Sea Coast Stretch

We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable. Sabine Baring-Gould

Others Elsewhere Bitten Shakespeare Except Like Alternate Cliffs Beds Rolling Accustomed Where Sea Hard Dover England Downs Chalk Presents

There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried. Sam Trammell

You People Easily Magic Spirits Above More Idea Voodoo New Haitian Also Mostly Because Access Accessible Tradition New Orleans Arts Buried Bury Sea Ground Even Orleans Level Below

The only good things I've seen emerge from a steamer are tamales, couscous, and dumplings - maybe the occasional artichoke or delicate fish fillet. But baby turnips with their tender greens still attached should be boiled in water as salty as the sea until their flesh is silky and soft. Samin Nosrat

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices. Sarah West

Single Military Every Sacrifices Makes Years Person Explains Sea Why

I don't like the fact that North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, and I don't like the fact that they're testing missiles and shooting them out in the sea in kind of an antagonistic fashion. Scott DesJarlais

Fashion Out Kind Weapons Fact Missiles Like Korea Antagonistic Testing North Shooting North Korea Them Sea Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world. Sean Scully

Art World Water Plants Changes Way Relentless Constant Through Shape Like Geography Just Movement Transformative Sea Works

If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an hour. It's called the asthenosphere - a sluggish sea, several hundred miles thick, on which floats the Earth's cool epidermis - the so-called tectonic plates. Seth Shostak

You Drive Down Hundred Earth Several Bored Sluggish About About An Hour Could Through Crust Hour Mess Hit So-Called Tunnel Which Straight Planet Miles Sea Cool Plates Floats Thick

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. Seth Shostak

Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together. Shashi Tharoor

Together Ocean Arabs Indian Both Talk South Iranians Linking Australians African Them Sea Separating Bridge Serve

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