Quotes About Ocean Voyages

#1. Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#2. I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#3. Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.

Emma Woolf

#5. Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.

Larry Burkett

#6. Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Mel Brooks

#7. The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Agatha Christie

#8. We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Neil Patrick Harris

#9. I love poetry, but I often wonder how poetry feels about me.

Delano Johnson

#10. She had very little money, but she wasn't afraid-there was only one place to go, and that was up.

Candace Bushnell

#11. I figure a friend has the right to offend you at least once.

K.J. Parker

#12. Rich men have big libraries.
Poor men have big TVs.

Mark Fox

#13. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

#14. Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting ... I'm not sure why.

Roger Bart

#15. I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

Robbie Robertson

#16. Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

Garrison Keillor

#17. Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.

Yukio Mishima