Ocean Floor Quotes

#1. Since much of the ocean floor remains unexplored (except perhaps for still-classified data acquired by the U.S. and Soviet navies), we may know more about the surface topography of Venus than about any other planet, Earth included.

Carl Sagan

#2. Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you. What else are you looking for? Its all under the sea

SebastiAn

#3. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.

Gloria Furman

#4. Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan

Anne Carson

#5. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.

Yasmin Mogahed

#6. Like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

Robin McKinley

#7. I've got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.

Maya Angelou

#8. We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor.

Helene Cixous

#9. When he was young, his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships. What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men.

Yaa Gyasi

#10. Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

#11. What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude? ... I welcome death as a version of life in which I will not be myself. There is a fallacy here which I ought to see but will not. For when I wake on the ocean floor it will be the same old voice that drones out of me ...

J.M. Coetzee

#12. She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

Lisa Jewell

#13. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Deborah Levy

#14. The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#15. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind - of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently.

Phil Gingrey

#17. Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Bradley Chicho

#18. Long after you go down
and the vessel rusts apart

your bones sunken
buried in the ocean floor

I wonder if you miss people?

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

#19. To be honest, I had been restless ... The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor
the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.

Sue Monk Kidd

#20. Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Leonard Ravenhill

#21. Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

Patti Davis

#22. Some people say I'm a pussy. I say, you are what you eat.

Peter Steele

#23. The beige linoleum floor turned into the ocean, crashed and crashed against Lotto's shins. He sat down. How swiftly things spun. Two minutes ago he'd been a kid, thinking about his nintendo system, worried about asymptotes and signs. Now he was, heavy, adult.

Lauren Groff

#24. NATO's essentially run by the United States.

Noam Chomsky

#25. In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

Edward Young

#26. In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

Alexis Bledel

#27. Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

Norman Foster

#28. For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged in my throat.

Tahereh Mafi

#29. When I grew up, I always ate Frosties Kelloggs.

Henrik Lundqvist

#30. If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.

Beatrice Faust

#31. Dream with all of your mind.
Work with all of your heart.
Persevere with all of your strength.
Succeed with all of your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

James Garner

#33. If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

Kayla Krantz

#34. I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

Joss Whedon

#35. There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.

Richard Hovey

#36. America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

Khaled Hosseini

#37. My mother drove me to Boston and bought me a beautiful blue dress that touched the floor, spilling out in waves; I wore the ocean in the shape of a girl.

Kelle Groom

#38. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

George R R Martin