Quotes About Sea Nymphs

#1. The Realists
HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?

W.B.Yeats

#2. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them, - Ding-dong, bell.

William Shakespeare

#3. What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live ... ?

William Butler Yeats

#4. We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. Expecting rain, the profile of a day
Wears its soul like a hat ...

John Ashbery

#6. Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.

J.R. Ward

#7. Sincerity in personal advertisements is a code word for commitment, used by women to screen out men seeking casual sex without any commitment.

David M. Buss

#8. He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here - it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.

Ayn Rand

#9. In Western culture, the 'miracles' referenced in scripture seem to have been relegated to the past as if to imply that they were reserved exclusively for certain historical periods.

Mark Ireland

#10. Tan Chau lies on the Thanh Hoa canal, which sings with freedom as it flows into the Mekong River on its way to the sea. Only the wind and the water, which you cannot imprison, are truly free.

James D. Redwood

#11. Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Muhammad Iqbal

#12. REFUSAL
When you refuse
to tell your weight
and age,
people know
you're fat and old.

Chocolate Waters

#13. I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

James Snyder

#14. Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#15. If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Roy Keane

#16. I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Robert Hilburn

#17. I shouldn't need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.

Anonymous