Graham Hawkes Quotes

#1. The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

Alberto Villoldo

#2. I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Graham Hawkes

#3. If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

Sarah Silverman

#4. The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.

Graham Hawkes

#5. Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

Graham Hawkes

#6. Science is about filling in the details.

Graham Hawkes

#7. Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

Graham Hawkes

#8. I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

Tony Hsieh

#9. The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

Arthur C. Clarke

#10. If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?

Graham Hawkes

#11. You know, some things don't matter that much ... Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, that matters.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. 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.

Graham Hawkes

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

Graham Hawkes

#14. I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.

Graham Hawkes

#15. I will be khan of them all. We are one people and one man can lead them. How else can we take the cities of the Chin?

Conn Iggulden

#16. Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

Graham Hawkes

#17. You will never feel whole in the presence of your mate if you don't feel whole standing alone.

Debra Fileta

#18. Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very quickly while trying to make it look effortless.

Jamie Eason

#19. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. Those clouds made you dream big. Not big like you could make a lot of money or like you could have a good job. Bigger than those things. It was complicated. I mean, big like you were part of the sky, which also made you feel small.

Cynthia Kadohata

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

Graham Hawkes

#21. One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

Phil Hartman

#22. One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

Graham Hawkes

#23. I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.

Graham Hawkes

#24. I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

Judith Leiber

#25. There's something just magical about flight. Period.

Graham Hawkes

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

Graham Hawkes

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

Graham Hawkes

#28. With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have.

Graham Hawkes

#29. A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#30. For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,

Banjo Paterson

#31. If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Graham Hawkes

#32. 'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.

Graham Hawkes

#33. He smiles and pulls me onto his leg to sit. "Why would you want to be alone? Alone sucks."
I can't argue because it's true. Alone does suck. But it's all I know. When you lose faith in people, alone is your only option.

Allie Everhart

#34. The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.

David L. Conroy