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Ocean With Quotes

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
- Drew Barrymore

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
- John Steinbeck

I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tiny aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.
- Alan Bradley

Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tine aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.
- Alan Bradley

I come from the ocean with songs of the sea
No lesson for learning, just play upon me
Now go make your music in lands near and far
Orion protects you wherever you are
- Jimmy Buffett

I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
- Charles Bukowski

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
- Stephen King

You don't know what's after the desert?"
Kennerly shrugged. "Some might. The coach ran through part of it fifty years ago. My pap said so. He used to say 'twas mountains. Others say an ocean... a green ocean with monsters. And some say that's where the world ends. That there ain't nothing but lights that'll drive a man blind and the face of God with his mouth open to eat them up.
- Stephen King

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
- Jim Rohn

Because the truth is that now that he's here, she can't imagine it any other way. Now that he's here, she worries that crossing an entire ocean with someone between them might be something like torture.
- Jennifer E Smith

The girl who had left Ireland was gone to the bottom of the ocean with the rest of them.
Gaynor, Hazel (2012-03-11). The Girl Who Came Home - A Titanic Novel (Kindle Location 1182). . Kindle Edition.
- Hazel Gaynor

There is an ancient saying,' noted Ironflanks, 'originating, I believe, from you fastbloods. The truth will set you free.'
'No, old steamer,' said the commodore. 'In my experience, the truth will get you sent to the bottom of the ocean with an anchor chain wrapped around your legs to buy your silence. But it's the truth I need, all the same.
- Stephen Hunt

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships...pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her...She had found a jewel inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
- Immanuel Kant

I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket.
- Jack Kerouac

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
- Herman Melville

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.
- Kathleen Quinlan

Tis true my form is something odd
But blaming me is blaming God
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
If I could reach from pole to pole
Or grasp the ocean with a span
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the man.
- Isaac Watts

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
- Zhang Yimou

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