Sea Quotes - Page 102

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Play is the highest from of research.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.