Sea Quotes - Page 17

• I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Book, Views, Invasion

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

  Diane Wilson

  Liberating

  Diane Wilson (2005). “An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas”, p.389, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

  Marc Almond

  Born, Magnet, Draws

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love sea salt spray but I hate being salty from the ocean, so I'll always shower after surfing, shampoo and condition my hair and then put in the salt spray. It's sort of a reverse cycle, but I just can't do the natural sea salt - it just feels too crunchy to go out with.

  Laura Enever

  Hate, Ocean, Hair

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

  Clive James

  Reading, Thinking, Love Of Reading

  "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. December 21, 2015.

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• I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Thinking, Land

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Book, Love Is, Immensity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

  Yann Martel

  Men, People, Needs

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• After you die, your body is just there. Isn't it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and you have no say or control over it? Somebody's going to have to deal with it. I've always respected people who kill themselves and find a way to get rid of the body. Very clean. Lost at sea. I can see why they do that. There's nothing left.

  Laurel Nakadate

  People, Body, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Iron, Oil

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

  Jon Weisman

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah.

  Max Blumenthal

  Mother, Gun, Israel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

  Annalee Newitz

  Ocean, Past, Land

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stories, Inspired

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• I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

  Ellie Goulding

  Believe, Thinking, Kind

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• I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Half, Wrecks

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.

  Casey Affleck

  Land, Sight, Storm

  "Casey Affleck On Why The Finest Hours Should Be Seen In Theaters". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.

  Douglas Booth

  Eye, Fire, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love to be by the ocean and have always done my best thinking by the sea. The ebb and flow is like a brain massage and very calming. I am also inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

  Roma Downey

  Kindness, Ocean, Thinking

  "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.

  Alison Eastwood

  Government, Two, Directors

  "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was out in California over the holidays and I was working with some photographs I took out there just now, actually, which were all different photographs of the sunset. They're really interesting because El Niño has changed the cloud configuration, not only the sea, but also the whole makeup of the clouds, the sunset, and the different gradations of color and tonality. So it'll be interesting to work with that.

  Michelle Stuart

  Holiday, Sunset, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back from the Red Sea and we were sunk off the coast of Africa by a German submarine. And I was in a lifeboat for 14 days and landed and lived with the Pondos in South Africa while - who took care of us and took care of me. I had some wound in my left leg.

  Haskell Wexler

  Reading, Submarines, Legs

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.

  Baron Vaughn

  Ocean, Shrimp, Bugs

  "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Rivers, Storm

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.

  Bill Gates

  Lying, Ocean, Mean

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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