Quotes About Buoys

#1. ...great eager mists flock to heaven laden with lore, and oceanward eyes on the rocks see only a mystic whiteness, as if the cliff's rim were the rim of all earth, and the solemn bells of buoys tolled free in the aether of faery.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

Buzz Aldrin

#3. trange things began to happen in the sea.
Anchor buoys marking the dorymen's fishing trawl sank and then shot back to the surface.

Barbara Walsh

#4. The ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
buoys,
advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
dropped things are bound to sink
in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
consciousness.

Marianne Moore

#5. That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.

Diana Nyad

#6. Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

Nora Roberts

#7. The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Paul Muldoon

#8. Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

Banana Yoshimoto

#9. All this life is let to chance, where are the buoys of its tender love

S.L. Northey

#10. It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. Family lore says I was named after the song 'Timothy' by The Buoys, a lovely little ditty about three guys who get trapped in a cave-in and resort to cannibalism; they eat Timothy.

Tim Pratt

#12. I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Pat Conroy

#13. I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

Amy Grant

#14. Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#15. Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.

Tyler Blanski

#16. I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Kim Chernin

#17. Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#18. Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

J. Oswald Sanders

#19. But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

Mario Puzo

#20. I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

Tom Scharpling

#21. Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

Rachel Zucker

#22. And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Phyllis Schlafly

#23. I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#24. The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.

Anita Brookner

#25. I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

Drew Barrymore