If I tried to describe my personality, I’d start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and believing in magic for years and years. – Sylvia Plath
While it’s typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it’s another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish. – Tom Douglas
As long as there’s a body of water nearby, I’m happy. Pools don’t count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed. – Sarah Carter
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. – Sylvia Earle
There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there are others, and I count myself among them, who think that once they are in place they begin to be adopted by life in the ocean as a habitat. – Sylvia Earle
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? – Steven Pinker
My parents live near the ocean, and I’ve spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water. – Win Butler
I have a physical background. It’s not like I’m a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in ‘Ocean’s 12.’ I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don’t really master anything. – Vincent Cassel
There were certain things in ‘Nemo’ – just this low hum of ocean and watery sound – that was enough to imply water, as opposed to restating it over and over again. – Thomas Newman
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river. – Simone Schwarz-Bart
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. – Sylvia Earle
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 mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. – Swami Sivananda
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it’s one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in. – William Least Heat-Moon
The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically. – Sylvia Earle
It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach – particularly the northern end of South Beach – is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime. – Susan Orlean
That’s what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver – they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way. – Todd Rundgren
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. – Tommy Douglas
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. – Zhang Yimou
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. – Sylvia Earle
I go through phases as far as working out goes. I’ll do yoga for a few months or then work out at the gym, and then if I’m not doing either, there are things that I usually try and do something active, whether it’s trying to jump in the ocean with the surfboard or go hiking. – Sarah Roemer
I’m not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining. – Sylvia Earle
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood – the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon. – Sylvia Plath