Best sea & sides Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.”

Fighting Sides Laughing Sea Flower Rivers Praise Fishes Singers Boat Dawn Lakes Fishing Pounds Towers Sail Captains Shouting Fisherman Eliot Nero Neptune Calypso

Author:Bob Dylan

“There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.”

“You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.”

Knows Men Giving Has Beens Sides Hours Wealth Risk Sea Honest Proud Fats Owners Old Man Mistaken Persistent Could Have Been Suspicious Beggar Purses Bombay Fastidious

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”

“Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.”

Song Sides Sea Mountain Folks Familiar Hills Followers Old Song

Author:Robert E. Howard

“The Aegean sea washes Greece on two sides: first, the side that faces towards the east and stretches from Sunium, towards the north as far as the Thermaean Gulf and Thessaloniceia, a Macedonian city...; and secondly, the side that faces towards the south, I mean the Macedonian country, extending from Thessaloniceia as far as the Strymon.”

Firsts Mean Two Country Faces Sides Cities Sea South East Greece Two Sides Extending

Author:Strabo

“People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.”

People Sides Creativity Greater Sea Effects Source Genius Function Mark Obsession Drag Anchors Inconvenient Badges Side Effects Brake Ocd

Author:David Adam

“Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.”

Heart Sides Sea Rivers Rounds Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Tied

Book:Songs from Books

Source: Songs from Books

“It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.”

Two Facts Sides Water Sea Rivers Thirds Fishes Boat Odd Streams Lakes Fishing Facts Of Life

Book:No Shortage of Good Days

Source: No Shortage of Good Days

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.”

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.”

“The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.”

Two Book Sides Behinds Four Sea Fronts Rose East Valleys Fourth Cones Citadels

Book:Three Tales

Source: Three Tales

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

Humans Sound Sides Sea Ocean Eternal Perception Edges Tendencies Human Thought

Book:Among the Isles of Shoals

Source: Among the Isles of Shoals

“I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.”

Littles Sides Fiction Creative Sea Ocean Islands Nonfiction Caribbean Atlantic Ocean

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!”

Ifs Stills Lying Sides Sleep Known Sea Months Ocean Wide Breathing Howl Forefathers Steep Atlantis

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”

“Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”

“Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.”

Life Giving Running Spirit Sides Water Air Sea Wind Drink Lows Give Me Filled Ships This Life Rough Cracks Sail Yards Drink Water Masts Keel Rough Seas

Book:The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

Source: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron

“Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.”

Way Sides Break Sea Rocks Blue Diamond Blue Sea Deep Blue Sea

Author:John Gorka

“My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.”

Order Sides Sea Husband Legs My Husband Rereading

Author:Enid Nemy

“Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.”

“If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of the story in the later Priestly source, it is more miraculous: The water stands up on either side like a wall. There are walls of water standing up. As you move back in time, oddly enough, the story becomes more historical.”

Ifs Enough Stories Moving Sides Water Sea Source Wall Standing Historical Storm Miraculous Retelling Back In Time Exodus

Author:Elie Wiesel

“What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.”

Sides Numbers Sea Minutes Car Communication Drug Majors Train London Shops Goods Villain Cash Routes Fence Stolen Airports Tunnels Port Antiques Brighton Exporting

Author:Peter James

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.”

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories

“He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.”

Sides Dark Sun Growing Sea Century Flower Lows Blue Rose Hills France Colour Native Thrown Shade Mexico Retreat Violet Purple Variation Velvet Lavender New Mexico Weavers

Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

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