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“I like the idea of watching the sun go down in the ocean. I've always felt comfortable about that, I like sunsets. There's something about a westward movement that seems fascinating, although the Irish refer to going West as a metaphor for dying. I see it differently.”

Dying Ocean Metaphor Sunset

Author:Michael C. McMillen

“I've never done a video where I feel like the images have anything to do with my song, except in the most vague way possible, because I feel like the song is its own complete thing. But ideally, a song is a complete sphere like the Earth, where if you were an alien with a huge, huge finger, you could stick your finger into the middle of the ocean and make an impression on it. It’s not an impregnable sphere, but it is a sphere.”

Done Earth Song Ocean Impression Aliens

Author:Will Oldham

“Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I'm most at home. When I'm away from it and landlocked I long for the ocean. There's something about it, I'm at peace with it.”

Long Home Growing Up Ocean

Author:Scott Eastwood

“Kitesurfing is one of the greatest sports in the world. I highly recommend this to anyone who has access to the ocean. There is nothing more freeing than being out there and kitesurfing. When my schedule permits, it's the first thing I do in the morning, before I have breakfast. Tennis is also fun, especially against someone far better at the sport than I am.”

World Fun Sports Morning Ocean Tennis

Author:Richard Branson

“Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It should have its own way of evolving. In some places, it will evolve slower and in others, faster. It's like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we'll be going backward.”

Natural Mountain Ocean Dignity Human Rights Evolve Free Speech Human Dignity

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Barack Obama and his followers and his adorers have decided he can bring us all together, that he can reach across aisles, he can reach across oceans. Who knows, he might be able to reach across galaxies, bring people together, to find common ground from the mountaintop, and so, my friends.”

People Together Common Ocean Barack Galaxy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“My greatest peace is at the ocean, which was part of my decision to move out of Manhattan. A real treat is a trip to the beach. One of my favorites is Capri, and I love Mexico, but no matter where it is, it's really difficult to be in a bad mood when you're sitting on the sand, listening to the ocean.”

Real Moving Difficult Decision Listening Ocean Mood Beach Sand Bad Mood

Author:Rachel Roy

“It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.”

Mind Enough Ocean Mindfulness Wave Gentle Calmness

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“I'm a big believer in trying to challenge yourself to step outside of your comfort zone and try new things. I was petrified of sharks in the ocean so I got certified in scuba because I don't like settling for being afraid of things and being uncomfortable with things.”

Trying Challenges Comfort Ocean Believer Settling Uncomfortable Zone Comfort Zone Being Afraid Challenge Yourself

Author:Nick Lachey

“My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you start building a fire in the fireplace and the leaves literally start falling from the trees. It is a cold and rugged and a beautiful place that reminds you with its many death traps - its painfully cold oceans, its sharp, jagged beaches, and perilous cliffsides - that nature doesn't care whether you live or die.”

Reason Care Beautiful Fall Tree Building Cold Ocean My Favorite Lovely Beach Autumn Beautiful Places

Author:John Hodgman

“When I'm out in the ocean and I watch a seabird, I think, "Oh, I probably I know what that seabird is doing" - and I don't study seabirds. And the same for the turtles and on and on. But with the whales, a lot of the time, I have no idea what they're doing, and they're the ones I study.”

Thinking Study Ocean

Author:Hal Whitehead

“Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother to listen, rather than look? And here are the facts: there are blind species, in the backs of the caves, the bottoms of the oceans. It's not essential on planet Earth to be able to see, to be a species. But there are no deaf animal species. You have to be able to hear, or you won't get the information you need in order to survive.”

People Thinking Important Earth Animal Ocean Blind Bottom Bother Deaf Planet Earth

Author:Gordon Hempton

“We need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security for peaceful resignation. That's very important because we're all afraid that he will stick to power to his deathbed and just kill a lot of people along the way. If he is willing to go, we shall buy him an island in the Caribbean or in the Pacific Ocean with nice girls - like a separate country for him.”

People Important Country Girl Decision Nice Security Ocean Trade Peaceful Convince Resignation Nice Girl

Author:Ilya Ponomarev

“Within an hour I can be at the ocean, the forest, the mountains in San Francisco...But really, I fell in love with the city the first time I came out here in 2003. In addition to the natural beauty, this is ground zero for the food justice movement.”

Hours Natural Justice Mountain Ocean First Time

Author:Bryant Terry

“What we are doing is deeply unfair and a profound tragedy - what we're doing in the way of global warming, what we're doing to the oceans - and none of it makes any sense to me.”

Ocean Tragedy Profound Global Warming Unfair

Author:Wayne Dyer

“A real challenge that I've had with my company, Bayou With Love, is getting people to understand that using post-consumer materials does not mean that you are getting a "less than" product than one made with virgin materials. I use a lot of post-consumer plastic in Bayou's clothing. I use it in our bags, which are made from recycled plastics from the ocean.”

People Mean Real Challenges Love Is Ocean

Author:Nikki Reed

“The millions and millions and millions of tons of toxic waste dumped into rivers and ocean. Extracting materials in a way that's not sustainable. All of those things suddenly in the last, I want to say, couple years alone, they matter to people. That's a big deal.”

People Couple Ocean Dumped

Author:Nikki Reed

“I would describe our band "Paper Walls' growth as the natural evolution for anyone the age of 25 to 27, but with "Paper Walls' we focused on the best of what Yellowcard had to offer from our previous work. Meaning we took the energy we had from Ocean Avenue and blended that with that sharp rock edge and all the different sonic evolutions we have on "Lights and Sounds', and we basically mashed them together. So what we have on "Paper Walls' is basically the finest Yellowcard sounds we have to offer.”

Different Age Together Energy Growth Natural Evolution Ocean Focused Finest

Author:Sean Mackin

“The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.”

Becoming Ocean Scientist Confused Programmes Anomalies Heuristics

Book:The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”

Ifs Young Dies Can Do Silence Sky Blessing Ocean Tiny Uplifting Desert Thirst Precise Crystals Gospel Music Minutiae

Author:Anne Lamott

“If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.”

Ifs Years Heaven Sea Ocean Compare Budgets Fund Nasa Annuals Ocean Exploration

Author:Robert Ballard

“You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.”

Knows Speak Streets Ocean Bridges Queens Atlantic Ocean

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”

Bigs Cities Ocean Towns City Life Swamps Big Cities Cities At Night

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.”

Needs Five Figures Ocean Whales

Book:No Cure for Cancer

Source: No Cure for Cancer

“He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.”

Children Made Facts Sleep Pride Proud Ocean Parenting Fishes Bones Innocence Meals Swim Belly

Author:John Lennon

“There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.”

Looks Views Cities Tree Offers Mountain Ocean Climate Palms Looking Good Detroit Scenery Palm Trees

Author:Elmore Leonard

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”

Knows Use Lines Limits Ocean Depth Length Sailor Serendipity Fathom

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.”

Dream Memories Sea Mountain Ocean Ancient Good Memories Ancient Times Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Vivid Memories Blue Ocean Endless Time Ocean Currents

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_

“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”

Men Book Secret Wonderful Ocean Old Man Ocean Sea Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_

“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”

Black White Quiet Ocean Blue Green Silent Smooth Grey Blue Ocean

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_

“In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”

Literature Morality Easier Ocean Deeper Sinking Baseness

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”

Wonder Sea Ocean Cruelty Pirate Monotonous Ocean Sea Oceans And Seas Sailors And The Sea Sea Water

Book:Fireside Travels

Source: Fireside Travels

“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”

“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”

Men Way Mind Literature Missing Ocean Shore Backwards Missing You Crawling Crabs Atlantic Ocean

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.”

Feels Heard Week Balance Ocean Swimming Gravity Pregnant Center Of Gravity

Author:Marisa Miller

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”

Sun Sea Solitude Ocean Empty Embrace Setting Settings Beach Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Cool Beach

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.”

Ifs Has Beens Ocean Ships Conquer Revolutionary Expensive Mars Breakthrough Rockets Colony Colonizing Mars

Author:Elon Musk

“Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.”

Men Law United Quality Ocean Rivers Assuming

Author:Guru Nanak

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”

“Every drop in the ocean counts.”

Art Artist Water Sea Ocean Beach Drop Of Water World Water Day Drops In The Ocean

Author:Yoko Ono

“It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.”

People Ends Seems Half Ocean South Like Me Beach Display Sublime Miami Watchers Miami Beach South Beach

Author:Susan Orlean

“Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.”

Humanity Fall Seeing Loneliness Ocean Hostility Seeing Yourself

Author:Mehmet Oz

“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”

Ifs Want Needs Running Jobs Effort Ocean Rain Tasks Clean Intention Very Good Worthy Accomplish Forests Serenity Good Job Dolphins Best Intentions

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

“I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.”

Looks Mean Beautiful Mountain Ocean Vancouver

Author:Emma Bell

“Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.”

Want Mean Doe Desire Opportunity Poverty Economy Wind Ocean Window Democratic Israel Improvement Islands Neighbour Affluence Life Means Neighbourhoods Window Of Opportunity Winds Of Change

Author:Shimon Peres

“God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.”

Men Speak Language Stars Son Ocean Sight Hearing Imperfect Thunder Earthquakes Adapted Hearing God

Author:William Lyon Phelps