Sea Oak Quotes

#1. Matt Merton comes back and explains that last week's show on suicide, in which the parents watched a reenactment of their son's suicide, was a healing process for the parents, then shows a video of the parents admitting it was a healing process. ("Sea Oak")

George Saunders

#2. Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

David Mitchell

#3. Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Gianni Versace

#4. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. Change your words into truths and then change that truth into LOVE ...

Stevie Wonder

#6. It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest

John Muir

#7. For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

Hal Borland

#8. I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me ... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

Ivan Turgenev

#9. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

John Irving

#11. I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. For it's home, dearie, home
it's home I want to be.
Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
They're all growing green in the old countrie.

William Ernest Henley

#13. Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

John Clare