Ocean Pier Quotes

#1. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

Howard Zinn

#2. I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

Paolo Bacigalupi

#3. Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

M.J. Rose

#4. An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Rod Serling

#5. The one who demands nothing, seeks everything.

Vivienne Lorret

#6. Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.

Shel Israel

#7. The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun-worn pier, and the humans had just gotten the news and taken a powder.

Jonathan Lethem

#8. Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier.

Tom Waits

#9. A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

Ryan Lilly

#10. Most people new to a city on the ocean would probably go to the beach during the day when there are people around. I, on the other hand, decided to try a midnight swim at the somewhat gamy Santa Monica pier, by myself. That is, until a nearby guard kicked me off the beach for my own safety.

Kathy Griffin

#11. To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Anita Shreve

#12. I think one of the sweetest proofs we have of the Father's loving care for us is that we often find in this life the things which gave us great happiness below.

Rebecca Ruter Springer

#13. They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

William Shakespeare

#14. I like to be in pain when I'm getting massaged. That way I know I'm getting my money's worth.

Alison Brie

#15. I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore.

John Von Neumann

#16. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;

Kahlil Gibran