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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.


Lord Byron


#control #dark #deep #earth #fleets

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.


John Updike


#fiction #hugging #open #poetry #sailing

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.


Al Capone


#drive #hospitality #i #lake #liquor

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.


Anton Chekhov


#left #neither #nor #other #reached

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.


Margaret Cho


#bone #cleopatra #credit #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.


Christopher Columbus


#approach #ashore #completely #dispatched #doubt

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.


George Combe


#brute #brute force #chooses #england #few

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.


Bobby Flay


#grill #grilling #jersey #jersey shore #lobster

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.


Joseph Conrad


#been #celebrations #certain #friendly #human

Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia.


Brian Cox


#australia #australians #beautiful #believe #country






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