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It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.

Quotes by Elvis Mitchell

For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good...

Quotes by Elvis Mitchell

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

Quotes by Elin Hilderbrand

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.

Quotes by Elin Hilderbrand

I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One...

Quotes by Eline Powell

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Quotes by Edmund Waller

I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be...

Quotes by Edith Widder

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even...

Quotes by Edith Widder

During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere,...

Quotes by Edith Widder

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the...

Quotes by Edith Widder

In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that...

Quotes by Edith Widder

We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't...

Quotes by Edith Widder

We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

Quotes by Edith Widder

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

Quotes by Edith Widder

If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of...

Quotes by Edith Widder

One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

Quotes by Edith Widder

If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved...

Quotes by Edith Widder

It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

Quotes by Edith Widder

I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the...

Quotes by Edith Widder

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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