Quotes About Fathoms

#1. I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Dodie Smith

#2. The love we hold sees no boundaries, it feels no limits, it crosses all frontiers. It can enrich us or send us spiralling to the deepest fathoms and if it is true, it can cross oceans and climb mountains, blind to race, creed and colour...It is a beautiful thing, this thing that claims our hearts.

Virginia Alison

#3. This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.

William Shakespeare

#4. I love the sea with its impenetrable fathoms, its wash and undertow, and rasp of shingle sucked anew.

Margaret E. Barber

#5. It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

Gautama Buddha

#6. The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Edward Forbes

#7. You're just as dead if you fall from forty feet as you are from four thousand fathoms, that's what I say.

Terry Pratchett

#8. You definitely are deep water Dr. Fisher. Fathoms deep.

J.M. Richards

#9. I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

Charles Darwin

#10. Depths of Friendship
... under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie oscillation
reverberated brash and bold ...

Muse

#11. Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Music fathoms the sky.

Charles Baudelaire

#13. I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#14. Where dreams may take you fathoms deep within the soul of the forest. Mists close in around your feathered visions, floating phantoms of days gone by, and days to come, their twirling tendrils tempting your thoughts blossom with the unbound less love and passion you hide within.....

Virginia Alison

#15. Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

Carl Sandburg

#16. I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Lev Grossman

#17. As the stranger came closer, Dud understood everything and welcomed it, and when the pain came, it was as sweet as silver, as green as still water at dark fathoms.

Stephen King

#18. It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Jostein Gaarder

#19. She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Wow! said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster.

J.K. Rowling

#21. If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Vikram Seth

#22. Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake

Shelby Foote

#23. No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is ... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

John Macquarrie

#24. Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#25. Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

Edward Forbes

#26. There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. There is another capital beneath the waves, She plunged ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea.

Haruki Murakami

#28. Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#29. My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.

Jock Stein

#30. The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.

Tom Hodgkinson

#31. What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Mark Spitz

#32. The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible.

Lisa Mangum

#33. I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

Oprah Winfrey

#34. Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#35. When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

Will Sheff

#36. Young people are inept at love; it is like being given a flying machine, and you leap inside, ready to set off as you've always dreamed, yet you don't have the first notion of how to make it start, much less how to make it move.

Andrew Sean Greer

#37. The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Thomas Phaer

#38. Eric pressed himself against me, a long hot line of sweat and flesh. There was a roll of his hips against mine and I said, "Wow." He laughed. The

T.J. Klune

#39. We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained"
-Boys of the Fatherless-

David C. Riggins

#40. Treat me good, I'll treat you better, treat me bad and I'll treat you worse.

Sonny Barger

#41. He wanted to do more than paint his flame-haired model.

Juliette Banks

#42. People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.

Jackie Warner