Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Pauly

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.

Beck

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.

B. R. Ambedkar

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Cecelia Ahern

There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

Carl Safina

For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet.

Carl Safina

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Carl Safina

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

Carl Safina

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

Roy Malan

Our finale links the intensity of young composers' creativity with the exuberance and sparkle of young performers.

Michael Redd

Our whole identity is to push the basketball, and that's what he does best. Once he gets in the open court, his creativity takes over, and we're better off by doing that.

Billy Corgan

Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Bill Bradley

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Jeff Zucker

I wondered if I would find the next few years as personally fulfilling as the first four I have spent as the president of NBC News. I also found myself missing the opportunity for the kind of creativity I've had in previous jobs.

Irvin Lippman

I did not predict the full range of creativity.

Jim Tressel

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.

Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

John Brunner

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

Blaise Pascal

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Tom Stoppard

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

David Bowie

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Craig Brown

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.