“I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.” MenWayGivingWaterResponsibilitySeaLandMen And WomenInstinctBehaveBoardsFloatingWashingOaksFirmnessSense Of ResponsibilityFlirtationSeaweedWashing Away Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.” PeopleMeanNightWaterLevelsSeaFeetStreetsSolutionsWeightHolesQuartersFloatingNew OrleansCemeteryCoffinsStormyVaultsFrench QuarterStormy Nights Author:James Cagney
“Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.” WayKindLittlesSaidIdeasWholeSongSeaLandWasteBiggerDiscussionPhrasesRealmsFloatingPokeScumFootnotesWaste Land Author:Ted Leo
“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.” HumansFactsProblemFacesChoicesHeavenCommonSeaSolutionsPhilosophicalHonestlySillySignificanceFloatingFree ChoiceJellyfishDeep Philosophical Author:Allen W. Wood
“Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.” IfsTwoSelfBigsWantedMovingTechnologyImagineSeaOilShipsPlatformsFloatingFloatsGovernanceNeighbourCruiseDocksCruise ShipsHigh Seas Author:Joe Quirk
“A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.” NationsLevelsSeaBecomingIslandsTransitionFloatingPacificSinking Author:Joe Quirk
“At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.” StillsNightStarsSpaceWonderfulSeaSkyOceanSensationsFloatingSea And SkyFloating In Space Author:Natalie Wood
“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.” IfsThinkingWantGivingArtMadeBodyRealityEyeSpiritWaterSeaMovementShapesRiversPatternsFishesSpeedScalesBoatLakesFishingFlashFloatingFins Author:Constantin Brancusi
“I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.” FeltSeaBrokeHorizonSailFloatingTurtles Book:White Oleander Source: White Oleander