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“My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.”

Firsts Lasts Romance Sea Virgins High Seas Dori

Author:Oscar Levant

“We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.”

Humanity Taken Sea Planets Demand Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Marine Keepers Fisherman Stewards High Seas

Book:The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

Source: The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing

“With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.”

Men Firsts Kind Different Black Race Knowledge Sea Weapons First Time Philosophical Flags Heroism Pirate Armor Different Races High Seas

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.”

People Values Risk Sea Special Periods Rose Fishing Assets Living On Risk-taking High Seas Inbreds

Author:Michael Lewis

“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.”

Feels Seems Sea Standing Ships Up And Down Spinning Pitching Deck Vertigo High Seas

Author:Laura Hillenbrand

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

Heart Felt Sea Threatened Royal High Seas

Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays

Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays

“When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.”

Want Running Sea Ships Want Him Naturalism Egomaniacs High Seas

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.”

Sea Feet Wind Raises Wave Ships Construction Sail Vessel Steers Legislators Swelling High Seas Navigators

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.”

Long Stars Sea Battle Long Time Slavery Symbols Flags Stripes Confederate American Flag Slave Trade High Seas

Author:Alan Keyes

“For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?”

Has Beens Sea Killing Israel Decades Palestinian Refugee Invasion Hostage Kidnapping Lebanon High Seas Lebanese Cyprus Palestinian Refugees

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Ifs Two Self Bigs Wanted Moving Technology Imagine Sea Oil Ships Platforms Floating Floats Governance Neighbour Cruise Docks Cruise Ships High Seas

Author:Joe Quirk

“As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.”

Wish Stars Chance Sea Wind Glory Concerned Wave Storm Orthodox Harbors Grandeur High Seas

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll