Open Sea Quotes

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

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

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you look around in every direction and don't see anything. That's a terrifying experience.

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

I would like to sail across the Atlantic. I would like the experience of being that far away from land.

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies.