Deep Ocean Quotes

• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Ocean, Dumb

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• A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

  Gloria Stuart

  Ocean, Heart, Keeping Secrets

  "Fictional character: Old Rose". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Dark, Blue

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

  Werner Herzog

  Ocean, Ice, Civilization

  Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Werner Herzog (2004). “Nosferatu--Phantom der Nacht”, British Film Institute

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• Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!
  Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Dark, Blue

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick”, p.184, Tyché

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• The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Monsters, Thrones

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Jewels

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• As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

  Paul Allen

  Ocean, Space, Lasts

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• O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.

  Luqman

  Believe, Ocean, Islamic

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• We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

  John Lehman

  Ocean, Opening Up, Eras

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• Literary science fiction is a very, very narrow band of the publishing business. I love science fiction in more of a pop-culture sense. And by the way, the line between science fiction and reality has blurred a lot in my life doing deep ocean expeditions and working on actual space projects and so on. So I tend to be more fascinated by the reality of the science-fiction world in which we live.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Reality, Space

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20,2010.

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• Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Crazy, Ocean, Feet

  Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

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• But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Ocean, Taken, Years

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• It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ocean, Our World, Air

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
  Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
  Smote the surrounding fields.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Heaven

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.193

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• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

  Gary Snyder

  Life, Ocean, Creativity

  Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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• O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Ocean, Giving, Deities

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• So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Sea, Two

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