Ocean Swell Quotes

#1. The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

Andrei Makine

#2. Arriving at a mansion with another gate, low and nearly invisible inside its landscape gardening, seeming so much constructed of night itself that at sunrise it might all disappear.

Thomas Pynchon

#3. One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

#4. You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.

Sasha Azevedo

#5. I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Thomas Hood

#6. I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

Morris Chestnut

#7. Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

Jane Austen

#8. Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

Michael Skolnik

#9. A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Rudyard Kipling

#10. This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.

Kenneth Eade

#11. However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress.

William Boyd

#12. Saying grace before a meal. Watching our breath. Repeating the ninety-nine names of Allah. Whirling like a dervish. Prayer. They all have one objective: to get us to pause just long enough to realize that life, your life, is a freaking miracle. The least you can do is pay attention.

Eric Weiner

#13. Isn't it amazing?" I asked. "How the ocean bows to the moon."
"Some people believe that it is the lure of the moon that compels the ocean's waves to swell. I believe that it's the ocean's dance that entices the moon's rays to shine upon it,

Nicole Gulla

#14. Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.

Muhtar Kent

#15. Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad

Mark Hoppus

#16. To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

John Denver

#17. The spirit cannot exist in a sealed void. It will eventually devour itself or waste away.

T.A. Miles