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I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space...

Quotes by Henry Winkler

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Quotes by Henry Grunwald

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Quotes by Henry Clay

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

Quotes by Helena Christensen

I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just...

Quotes by Helen Mirren

At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.

Quotes by Harvey V. Fineberg

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of 'Soleil' came from, on a...

Quotes by Guy Laliberte

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis....

Quotes by Greg van Eekhout

To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it's waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random,...

Quotes by Gregory Benford

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

Quotes by Gregory Benford

Not only have I made films about the subject, but I've largely funded them on my own, so I'm fully committed to doing whatever I can to change the audience's respect and appreciation for the ocean. In 100 years I...

Quotes by Greg MacGillivray

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

Quotes by Greg MacGillivray

I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.

Quotes by Greg MacGillivray

The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.

Quotes by Greg MacGillivray

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

Quotes by Graham Hawkes

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

Quotes by Graham Hawkes

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

Quotes by Graham Hawkes

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Quotes by Graham Hawkes

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Quotes by Graham Hawkes

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "ocean" quotes cover?
It ranges from Cold War-era alliance history, to a metaphor for civilization's fragility, a political metaphor about powerlessness, and a personal comment on enjoying sea air.
Does a quote discuss historical foreign alliances?
Yes, restrained: one quote recalls, "In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization." It's presented as the speaker's own historical recollection, not a claim this page takes a position on.
Is there a quote using the ocean as a metaphor for civilization?
Yes: "Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."
Does a quote use the ocean to describe powerlessness?
Yes: "Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice."
Is there a lighter, personal quote about the ocean?
Yes: "I feel comfortable in Chiba. There's more fresh air, and you can see the ocean."

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