Quotes About Rock Pools

#1. Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

John Yudkin

#2. Everyone has a book inside them, it's just a matter of getting it out

S.P. Foster

#3. Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.

Lesley Howarth

#5. The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn't fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.
I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he'd stop staring at me like that.

Alex Rosa

#6. I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.

Tracie Peterson

#7. A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.

William Boyd

#8. I did not throw 'The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation' at the audience. I threw it at the elocution mistress. I meant to cast it at her feet, but I missed.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#9. I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

Al Gore

#10. Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!

Kate Winslet

#11. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Raymond Bonner

#13. Women who bear the weight of opposition, she wrote, create a shelter for the rest of us.

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.

Joan Of Arc

#15. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed

Dante Alighieri

#16. All I can do is live the life I have. I can't trade it in for a new one. However strange and misshapen it might be, this is it for the gene carrier that is me.

Haruki Murakami

#17. The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. There isn't any more to ask.

Winston Graham

#19. From CHAOS?
Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart free from the heat of all creation. Swim into cool whirling coloured pools. Sleep on rock of consciousness.

Jay Woodman

#20. Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

Raymond Bonner