Pacific Quotes - Page 13

• It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".

  Constant Lambert

  Fun, Should Have, Spinning

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.

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• I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

  Henry Rollins

  Ocean, Birth Place, America

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• I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.

  Tim Kang

  Wings, Careers, Training

  Source: collider.com

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• I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

  Louis Zamperini

  Army, Air, Hawaii

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• Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

  Li Keqiang

  Believe, Play, People

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• The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

  Elizabeth George

  Islands, Pacific Northwest, Location

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• Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Clouds, Years

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

  Michael Emerson

  Years, Two, Middle

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That isn't to say that Hawaii's better. On the mainland, everyone seems to be trying to get somewhere. Kids are taught to shoot for the moon, to believe in their ability to do anything, to follow their passions. In Hawaii, you're stuck in the middle of the Pacific, and it can be difficult to see how you're going to follow your passion from there.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Believe, Kids, Passion

  "Laird Hamilton And Gabby Reece For The Winter Cover Of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 8, 2014.

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• In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Doors, People

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.

  Rick Atkinson

  War, Years, Challenges

  "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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• If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ocean, Use, Want

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• All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

  Troy Polamalu

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Nfl

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• My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.

  Jon Foreman

  Home, Sunset, Sleep

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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