Sea Quotes - Page 26

• New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

  Mark Helprin

  Fighting, Technology, Pirate

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• This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

  A. P. Herbert

  Boards, Trade, Officials

  Tinker Tailor (1922) "The President of the Board of Trade"

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• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Pitching, Ships, Spinning

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• I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

  David Hockney

  House, Crowds, Live By

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• Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

  E. W. Howe

  Lakes, Fishing, Rivers

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Success, Stay Strong

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• All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

  Rex Hunt

  Kids, Fishing, Rivers

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

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• Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Office, Ratios

  Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) p. 34

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• Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

  Ernest Istook

  America, Confusion, Needs

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• I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

  Don Johnson

  Swimming, Simple, Sharks

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• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Example, Common

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

  John Keats

  Death, Divorce, Land

  John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.345, e-artnow

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• I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

  Klaus Kinski

  Jesus, Church, Superstar

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• Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Moving, Names, Differences

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• There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Life, Education, Believe

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• The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

  Bill Kurtis

  Summer, Years, Ice

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• I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Dream, Memories

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• Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

  Christopher Lasch

  Play, People, Important

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• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Mind, Desert

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

  Vivien Leigh

  Swim, Want, Speak

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• It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Race, Said

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• We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Position, Public Office, Officials

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 47, 1799.

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• The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Alive

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead”

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• Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Airplane, Men, Sky

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Distance, Religion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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