Reaching The Ocean

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

A lot of people attack the sea. I make love to it. - Jacques Cousteau

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

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little. - Paul Carvel

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

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

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

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. - Tea Leoni

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

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

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

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. - Behati Prinsloo