Reaching The Ocean

There are plenty more fish in the sea. - English Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I have always had the sea as my playground. - Alexander D. Oen

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

They who dive in the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls. - Charles H. Spurgeon

The magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars. - Joanne Harris

She's a skeleton in the sand right now. She comes and she goes. - Annalies Corbin

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

The landlocked sea is Greek or Roman, the boundless sea is Portuguese. - Fernando Pessoa

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald

Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore. - Debasish Mridha

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea. - Enoch Powell

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

They are all discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. - Anna Freud

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. - Steven Wright

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it. - Maggie Stiefvater

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online. - Yotam Ottolenghi

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan

Morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. - William Taylor

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge. - Kelly Slater