The Sea John Banville Quotes

#1. These boxes held only ashes of answers, and all their presence meant was more mysteries, and a worry that someday something else might explode.

Bliss Broyard

#2. All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

Truman Capote

#3. I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we're really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.

Mark Zuckerberg

#4. The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

William Fleming

#5. 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. 'Don't worry, I wouldn't fit in your skin.'

Pierce Brown

#6. How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

John Banville

#7. Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Nick Lachey

#8. I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

David M. Kelley

#10. At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky.

John Banville

#11. Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

Rennie Ellis