Coast Quotes - Page 7

• I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
  had made him fugitive: he was the first
  to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
  as Italy and the Lavinian shores
  Across the lands and waters he was battered
  beneath the violence of the high ones for
  the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

  Virgil

  Fate, Journey, Men

  Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  Gary Burton

  Player, Boston, East

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• Americans are desperately, here on the West Coast, buying up and hoarding iodine pills... Isn't it great that in a land that is divided between conservative morons and liberal pussies, somehow we have managed to find a way to pull together and behave like moronic pussies?

  Bill Maher

  Iodine, Land, Pussy

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• You know how, when you fly from coast to coast on a really clear day, looking down from many miles up, you can see the little baseball diamonds everywhere? And every time I see a baseball diamond my heart goes out to it. And I think somewhere down there- I don't see any houses, I can hardly see any roads- but I know that people down there are playing the game we all love.

  Donald Hall

  Baseball, Heart, Thinking

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• The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

  John Hoeven

  Oil, Environmental, Keystone Pipeline

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• Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, People, Three

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• I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

  Lev Grossman

  Way, Tribes, East

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• No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Land, Cities

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• I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

  Colin Firth

  Italian, East, Serious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

  John Dyer

  Years, Degrees, Different

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• Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.

  John Gay

  Night, Years, Frost

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.19

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• That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

  Don Marquis

  Atheism, Saws, Puritan

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.69, Doubleday

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• I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Character, Cities, People

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Who reads short stories? one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us.

  John Cheever

  Men, Thinking, Office

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Leave your coast to discover your true self!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Self, True Self

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• In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Stars, Twilight

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• For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

  Big Sean

  East, Melting, West Coast

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

  James L. Barksdale

  Ocean, Reality, Tourism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  Rachel Nichols

  Fun, Home, Cities

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• One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

  Walter Wriston

  Men, Color, Attention

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• I tell people that I represent the district with a third of the California coast, the biggest trees in the world, some of the best wine grapes in the world, and about 60 percent of the marijuana produced in America.

  Jared Huffman

  Wine, Marijuana, California Coast

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think he [King Edward] was a modernizer who was a new thinker. The things he intended to do - unify the country, expand it all from coast to coast - were very modern and radical in those days. Also, the fact that he married who he did and that he managed to deal with the consequences and ramifications of that marriage and stay on the throne until the day he died, that shows skill.

  Max Irons

  Country, Kings, Thinking

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.

  Danny Boyle

  New York, Thinking, Hollywood

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

  Paul Ryan

  Crush, Jobs, Coal Miners

  "Big Ag Just Got A Big, Wet Kiss From Paul Ryan" by Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  Vera Wang

  New York, Climate, Yang

  "Vera Wang's L.A. Story - Photos of Vera Wang's Hollywood Home" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 10, 2012.

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