#ocean

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#both #both sides #commerce #conquer #depths

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#island #knowledge #little #ocean #our

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#bird #even #everything #flower #ocean

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two? ↗

— David Byrne

#life #meaning #music #ocean #pleasure

Screw sharks; a Transformer could be stretching up on its tippy toes and would still have a mile of cover to eat me. ↗

— Emma McLaughlin

#ocean #funny

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave. ↗

— Washington Irving

#death #grave #hour #ocean #time

I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen ↗

— Sally Andrew

#ocean #change