Reaching The Ocean

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

A roof stretching over the Atlantic Ocean. - Ernest Bevin

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

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

Time is like the ocean, always there, always different. - Ogden Nash

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

I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen

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

If you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day. - Leonard Cohen

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

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. - Laird Hamilton

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryi Suzuki-roshi

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. - Henny Youngman

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

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

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in…it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. - Carl Schurz

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

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? - David Mitchell

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. - Steven Wright

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. - Mother Teresa

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

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