116 quotes found
“If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.”
“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tid...”
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”
“The sea does not like to be restrained.”
“They sat on the outcropping of stone and at bread and fruit. Kasta watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place than another. It rose and fell ...”
“We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathle...”
“Seasickness in itself is not contagious, but I’m pretty sure that puking is extremely contagious.”
“A swaddled silence would be over the island, nights like that: if they complained, or had to cry for some lesion or cramp, it was baffled by the thick mists and all you heard was the tide, slapping...”
“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank”
“Praise the sea on shore remain.”
“I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”
“Break break break On thy cold gray stones O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.”
“Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.”
“Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.”
“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 r...”
“A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.”
