Sea Tales Quotes

#1. All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
where they were wont to do:
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.

Seanan McGuire

#4. Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#5. What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.

Merton Miller

#6. Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

Amy Heckerling

#7. The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Stanley Kubrick

#8. The word purebred is something we can define by counting generations back in dog-sex land. But it is not an indication of species or anything special, really.

Bill Nye

#9. With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

Lord Byron

#10. It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travelers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

Charles Dickens

#11. to think something is good, to do something is God.

Mike Myers

#12. It was an enchanted place, he said, designed to keep kids safe from the monsters, on an island where the sun shined every day and nobody ever got sick or died.

Ransom Riggs

#13. Shut the front door!" Jenna exclaimed.
Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. "The door is shut?

Laura Kreitzer

#14. I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. Sometimes,' Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, 'everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while'. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. 'I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.

Sarah Pinborough

#16. The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of the Son of God and recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit to a Kingdom of God.

Herman Bavinck

#17. Sometimes my hands they don't feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

James Vincent McMorrow

#18. Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.
- Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors

Marie Lu

#19. Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind telling her strange tales, or hold the big spotted shell that murmured of the sea to her ear, or talk to the roses in the garden.

L.M. Montgomery

#20. One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.

Stephen Richards

#21. Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

Oscar Wilde

#22. Fishes and tales And a fisherman's daughter Walks in the rain, She walks to the water To the sea.

Daniel Lanois

#23. There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

Susan Glaspell

#24. A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower.

Jeanne Desy