Ocean Quotes

‘I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.’ – Isaac Newton

‘Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.’ – Ryunosuke Satoro

‘Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.’ – Saint Augustine

‘You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘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 are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.’ – John F. Kennedy

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

‘Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.’ – Werner Herzog

‘You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.’ – Alan Watts

‘How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘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.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.’ – Sonia Gandhi

‘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.’ – Morgan Freeman

‘Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.’ – Immanuel Kant

‘A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.’ – Gloria Stuart

‘The ocean is a mighty harmonist.’ – William Wordsworth

‘Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.’ – Vanessa Paradis

‘We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.’ – Peter Benchley

‘On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.’ – Jim Rohn

‘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

‘Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.’ – Victor Webster

‘Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.’ – Douglas Adams

‘The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‘they.’ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‘they’ is out of you.’ – DJ Khaled

‘I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.’ – Amy Purdy

‘Sharks are beautiful animals, and if you’re lucky enough to see lots of them, that means that you’re in a healthy ocean. You should be afraid if you are in the ocean and don’t see sharks.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Being out there in the ocean, God’s creation, it’s like a gift He has given us to enjoy.’ – Bethany Hamilton

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

‘Frank Ocean, he’s the G.O.A.T.’ – Playboi Carti

‘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

‘Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.’ – Anne Lamott

‘When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.’ – Amor Towles

‘Every drop in the ocean counts.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel.’ – Shehbaz Sharif

‘The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.’ – Henry Beston

‘No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.’ – Charles Kettering

‘The landscape in Ireland is just – I’ve never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.’ – Percy Ross

‘I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.’ – Nnedi Okorafor

‘I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.’ – George Fox

‘When you see the ocean and the infinite, it empties your mind.’ – Ilaiyaraaja

‘Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘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

‘The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.’ – Theodor Mommsen

‘I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.’ – Frank Ocean

‘The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.’ – John Holdren

‘The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘I once wrote a short story called ‘The Best Blues Singer in the World,’ and it went like this: ‘The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.’ End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I’ve been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.’ – August Wilson

‘Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don’t know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what’s going on down there.’ – Cameron Bright

‘Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.’ – Lord Byron

‘It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.’ – John Locke

‘Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and corals.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘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

‘The tools and technologies we’ve developed are really the first few drops of water in the vast ocean of what AI can do.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that’s already in the ocean. It won’t go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.’ – Boyan Slat

‘You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘People choose to struggle when people don’t want to relax. Sometimes it is not on your side. Relax; calm down. No matter how hard the waves are, you will float on the ocean.’ – Kubra Sait

‘I love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. I think it’s so relaxing. It’s also a great form of active recovery. It’s perfect for those rest days when you still want to move a little bit.’ – Eugenie Bouchard

‘If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.’ – Henry Clay

‘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

‘Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.’ – Christina Aguilera

‘I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.’ – Dan Shechtman

‘There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.’ – Johnny Depp

‘The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.’ – Elon Musk

‘A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.’ – Henry Grunwald

‘The cows in Stella Gibbons’s immortal ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on ‘Ocean’s Kingdom,’ the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘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

‘The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.’ – Ram Dass

‘Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth’s temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.’ – Seth Shostak

‘The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.’ – Voltaire

‘I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.’ – Jonathan Carroll

‘If you think the ocean isn’t important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘I love the ocean. I’ve always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.’ – Siouxsie Sioux

‘For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.’ – Brian Skerry

‘We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.’ – Sally Ride

‘I love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.’ – Miranda Rae Mayo

‘Every time you dive, you hope you’ll see something new – some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn’t.’ – James Cameron

‘If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can’t live on this planet with a dead ocean.’ – Paul Watson

‘Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?’ – Fanny Crosby

‘The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.’ – Xi Jinping

‘Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.’ – Sara Paxton

‘I didn’t read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I’m so, so sorry I couldn’t read when I was younger.’ – Henry Winkler

‘The Bahamas is a beautiful place, but half of that beauty is found in the clear warm ocean that surrounds the Islands.’ – Becca Kufrin

‘My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn’t steal the breath from our lungs, so that they wouldn’t make a memory of this skin.’ – Clint Smith

‘He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.’ – John Lennon

‘There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it’s like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.’ – Bill Nye

‘The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly… music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.’ – Andres Segovia

‘Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘Plastic doesn’t have to be ocean plastic pollution.’ – Boyan Slat

‘The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call ‘mela’ or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean.’ – Ravi Shankar

‘I love the ocean. Anywhere near the ocean will do. Preferably the Atlantic Ocean.’ – Ben Fogle

‘If you’re in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.’ – Tom Waits

‘Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.’ – Guru Nanak

‘Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It’s not a lot of money.’ – Kenneth Langone

‘You’re not a wave, you’re a part of the ocean.’ – Mitch Albom

‘When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer, where they can sequester the carbon dioxide they have accumulated during their life span, an average of 33 tons for a great whale species, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.’ – Nicolaus Copernicus

‘Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘That’s what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver – they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.’ – Todd Rundgren

‘My mind became agitated with the enquiry – why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?’ – Deborah Sampson

‘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

‘Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘When the fishbowl gets too small, it’s time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.’ – Travie McCoy

‘When you’re underwater getting pounded, you are at the mercy of the ocean.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn’t down there, I don’t know.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries.’ – Scott Peters

‘Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It’s akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn’t do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?’ – Sylvia Earle

‘To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean – that’s scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.’ – Bethany Hamilton

‘My brother had written ‘Ocean Eyes,’ and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way – if you can’t dance to a song, it’s not a song.’ – Billie Eilish

‘In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh’s flight across the ocean.’ – Joseph Murray

‘Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.’ – Jacques Maritain

‘You go to a beach, you see a lot of plastic. It’s out of the ocean, it stays out of the ocean, so that’s good. But the thing is that in this Great Pacific garbage patch, this area twice the size of Texas, there’s simply no coastlines to collect plastic. So the idea is to have these very long floating barriers.’ – Boyan Slat

‘People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don’t study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it’s because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.’ – Hope Jahren

‘Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.’ – Sharon Tate

‘Looking out at the ocean, it’s easy to feel small – and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth’s seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.’ – Ted Danson

‘The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.’ – James Turrell

‘Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘It’s a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I’ve spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.’ – Edith Widder

‘The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.’ – Eden Robinson

‘Never underestimate the power of the ocean.’ – Heidi Klum

‘Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.’ – Bradley Chicho

‘Surfing soothes me, it’s always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I’m on a wave.’ – Paul Walker

‘The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.’ – Mark Rutte

‘Health to the ocean means health for us.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.’ – Ser’Darius Blain

‘Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such as winds, ocean currents, and sun activity. But the liberals want us to believe that climate change is also caused by gases expelled when humans burn so-called fossil fuels.’ – Phyllis Schlafly

‘I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.’ – Paula Cole

‘The fact is, Japan’s whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.’ – Paul Watson

‘Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.’ – Peter Benchley

‘Sea World’s killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.’ – Nina Easton

‘I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.’ – Jeff Goldblum

‘Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I like to be close to water and the ocean, particularly. I love to get out and body surf. I like mountain biking, too.’ – John McEnroe

‘In Porto, it’s a tourist city. It’s close to the river, the ocean as well. There’s a lot of history.’ – Ruben Neves

‘Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.’ – Bono

‘Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.’ – Maria Montessori

‘A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I’ve always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.’ – Rex Orange County

‘The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.’ – Enya

‘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

‘I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.’ – James Cameron

‘With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we’ve managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.’ – Kate Bernheimer

‘In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher’s victim, bleeding the ‘debris field’ – its passengers’ personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman – across the ocean’s floor.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘I was always interested in the ocean and also in art. I had to figure out how to put the two together, but painting fish sounded boring.’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.’ – Wayne Shorter

‘I’d love to work with Drake; I’d love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.’ – Dua Lipa

‘Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia – reduced levels of oxygen that create conditions in which organisms can’t survive.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.’ – Nina Arianda

‘Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn’t anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.’ – Cat Cora

‘Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.’ – Katy Mixon

‘One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey.’ – Theo James

‘Can we build a system which is able to survive on the ocean for years? That is the key question we are trying to answer here with the North Sea prototype.’ – Boyan Slat

‘Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.’ – Vanna Bonta

‘I saw Dolly Parton play at the Glastonbury Festival to about 120,000 people. It was an ocean of human beings. I was a mile away from the stage, and I swear to God, I could feel her energy.’ – Sturgill Simpson

‘There were times, especially when I was traveling for ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, ‘Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘The Ganga remains sacred from Gomukh, its source, to Ganga sagar, where it enters the ocean. It sanctifies the tributaries, which attain the very nature of Ganga. Similar is Sanskrit; sacred by itself, it sanctifies all that come into its contact.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘My mom told me that even as a toddler I wasn’t afraid of anything. She thought something was wrong with me. I didn’t know how to walk or swim, but that didn’t stop me from crawling into the ocean and almost drowning over and over again.’ – Julia Fox

‘Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon’s main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.’ – Alex Shoumatoff

‘I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.’ – Isaac Newton

‘Tipping points are so dangerous because if you pass them, the climate is out of humanity’s control: if an ice sheet disintegrates and starts to slide into the ocean there’s nothing we can do about that.’ – James Hansen

‘Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.’ – Joe Hill

‘America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.’ – John Paul Jones

‘The sheer sensory experience of San Francisco is unlike anywhere else. Not just the physical beauty, but the textures, the feel, the wind, the ocean. It’s a monumental feeling unrivaled by anywhere else. Its a world class, gorgeous city. And the coffee is great.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘Ocean acidification – the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid – is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.’ – Michael Berryman

‘The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.’ – Derek Walcott

‘Even a child, if he looks at a map of the world, can point out that the Indonesian archipelago forms one unity. On the map, there can be shown a unity of the group of islands between two great oceans – the Pacific Ocean and the Indies Ocean – and between two continents – the continent of Asia and the continent of Australia.’ – Sukarno

‘I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.’ – Paul Walker

‘With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.’ – Sammy Davis, Jr.

‘There’s this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I’m a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they’re an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.’ – Megan Smith

‘I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to have a good amount of adda and sing songs through the night.’ – Mohit Chauhan

‘I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.’ – Narciso Rodriguez

‘I’ve got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘I think about myself as like an ocean liner that’s been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back all the way to ‘stop,’ but the ship doesn’t stop immediately, does it? It has its own momentum and it keeps on going, and I’m very flattered that people are still finding me useful.’ – Leonard Nimoy

”Tracks’ is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.’ – John Curran

‘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

‘The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I’m in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.’ – Texas Battle

‘I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.’ – Miranda Kerr

‘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

‘The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of ‘Soleil’ came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy.’ – Guy Laliberte

‘I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.’ – Adela Florence Nicolson

‘We’ve built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘The ocean, to me, is one of the most terrifying things on the planet.’ – Tom Holland

‘Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘With EarthEcho Expedition: Acid Apocalypse, we are working with youth leaders and noted experts on the changing chemistry of our ocean to help illuminate one of our most pressing and inscrutable environmental issues.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘I swim a lot, almost every day. I just go out to the beach by my place in Malibu and jump into the ocean.’ – Michael Madsen

‘I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours’ kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?’ – Salma Hayek

‘Movies like ‘The Abyss’ and ‘Jaws’ make people think the ocean is threatening. It’s not. It’s very tranquil.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It’s become a case of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone.’ – Aaron Peirsol

‘Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.’ – Etienne Schneider

‘We uploaded ‘Ocean Eyes’ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.’ – Billie Eilish

‘But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘The fact that one can lose one’s sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one’s consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.’ – Sam Harris

‘When you’re thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that’s faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two, that’s science.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.’ – Dale Steyn

‘In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you’re stuck with your own thoughts – there’s great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there’s also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.’ – Diana Nyad

‘Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack, something might happen on land.’ – Alexander Gould

‘During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.’ – Edith Widder

‘I don’t like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by ‘Jaws.” – David Duchovny

‘We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.’ – Filippo Brunelleschi

‘Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.’ – David Horsey

‘I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.’ – Annabella Sciorra

‘I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.’ – Jamaica Kincaid

‘We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?’ – Frances Beinecke

‘How has the sky been transformed by drones? How has the ocean been transformed by the fact that over 90% of the world’s information travels in underwater cables?’ – Trevor Paglen

‘Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, ‘My great-grandparents came from wherever… this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.’ All the details get watered down but don’t quite disappear.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.’ – John Bytheway

‘As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal experience how much logistics work is needed to get you home.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I was thinking recently, I’ve always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do – man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.’ – Theo James

‘In the case of ‘Ocean at the End of the Lane,’ it’s a book about helplessness. It’s a book about family, it’s a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don’t entirely understand.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘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

‘My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn’t frightening, it was more exhilarating.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn’t cure.’ – Ross MacDonald

‘The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘I’m horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.’ – Brooke Burke

‘You can never turn your back on the ocean.’ – Rip Torn

‘I do like the ocean wave, actually. I’m born under the sign of Cancer – the sign of the crab – so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such – although not the wide-open and deep seas.’ – Anjelica Huston

‘I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.’ – Leni Riefenstahl

‘Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘It’s the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.’ – Michelle Rodriguez

‘Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.’ – Edmund Waller

‘Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I’ve written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it’s understood on television and in newspapers.’ – Kenneth Koch

‘We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.’ – Brad Dourif

‘Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.’ – William Henry Ashley

‘Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I’d rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.’ – Kevin J. Anderson

‘The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.’ – Tom Allen

‘Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.’ – Tom Allen

‘Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It’s supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it’s in the Pacific Ocean instead.’ – David R. Brower

‘To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.’ – John C. Hawkes

‘The sea has now changed from it’s natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.’ – George Vancouver

‘Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.’ – Jo Bonner

‘Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.’ – Natalie Gulbis

‘I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs… the ocean… and love.’ – William Shatner

‘I really enjoy writing novels. It’s like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.’ – Denis Johnson

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

‘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

‘The frozen ocean… of Boston life.’ – Julia Ward Howe

‘It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.’ – Klaus Kinski

‘The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.’ – Imre Lakatos

‘I guess why the Ocean’s films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it’s a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.’ – Steven Soderbergh

‘I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean’s films.’ – Steven Soderbergh

‘We also own a little boat and I’m like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.’ – Perry Como

‘Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.’ – William H. Seward

‘I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.’ – Kathleen Quinlan

‘There’s a lot to be said about what’s happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that’s being spilled in there.’ – Lloyd Bridges

‘We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.’ – Michael Stipe

‘The movie that’s had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I’m in the ocean, I’m hearing that music.’ – Judd Nelson

‘Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.’ – Herbert Croly

‘In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.’ – Gene Tierney

‘But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they’ve been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it’s come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It’s here.’ – Patty Hearst

‘The sun would come up over the ocean, and we’d be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.’ – Marguerite Moreau

‘It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world’s surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.’ – Roy H. Williams

‘It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.’ – Pierre Loti

‘Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.’ – Robert T. Bakker

‘I don’t know if you can change things, but it’s a drop in the ocean.’ – Julie Walters

‘I like to make all kinds of movies. I’d do ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ with the right script.’ – Steven Soderbergh

‘I’m not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I’m two steps away from the other side when I’m out there. It’s more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.’ – Jeffrey Wright

‘Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.’ – Franz Grillparzer

‘American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

‘You know, I do speak the Queens English. It’s just the wrong Queens that’s all. It’s over the 59th Street Bridge. It’s not over the Atlantic Ocean.’ – Cyndi Lauper

‘If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another – and always into a better set – things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean – there is nothing there.’ – Alexander Herzen

‘My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, ‘Max, you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.” – John C. McGinley

‘As for poker, I’ve stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean’s Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think ‘actor’ and see some easy money.’ – Matt Damon

‘I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you’re floating on top of the ocean.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.’ – Jolene Blalock

‘The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.’ – Jordana Brewster

‘There’s no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean – or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean – to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It’s not, ‘Hey, you have so much.” – Luke Scott

‘I’ve always been drawn to the ocean.’ – Kenny Chesney

‘Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there’s no food, no culture, no ocean.’ – Elin Hilderbrand

‘Ever since I was a child I’ve always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there’s always a melody in there.’ – Carlos Santana

‘I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.’ – Hayden Panettiere

‘I love the woods even more than the ocean.’ – Steven Tyler

‘I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan’s Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.’ – Dorothea Benton Frank

‘I really appreciate Frank Ocean’s lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it’s still lyrical. It’s almost poetic, in a way, but it’s very personal at the same time.’ – Alicia Keys

‘As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.’ – Brandon Boyd

‘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

‘Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours’ lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.’ – Shimon Peres

‘Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn’t mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It’s part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It’s like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it’s like a fishbowl with a limo tint.’ – Pharrell Williams

‘I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend – my best friend.’ – Robert Ballard

‘I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.’ – Samantha Stosur

‘I like old tunes when I’m driving. They’re fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.’ – Jenson Button

‘I’ve had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from ‘The Piano,’ the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on – the goal is to keep alive.’ – Jane Campion

‘Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it’s got everything, man. It’s got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It’s beautiful.’ – Chad Smith

‘I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a ‘Vogue’ shoot.’ – Helena Christensen

‘If I’m not on tour or in the studio, I’m in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It’s not lost on me that it’s a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘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

‘I’m concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.’ – Mayim Bialik

‘New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.’ – Jerry Saltz

‘For some reason surfing… I’m not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn’t seem as great to me.’ – John Slattery

‘I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it’s just mountains and ocean.’ – Emma Bell

‘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

‘Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.’ – Simon Winchester

‘When you’re connected to the ocean, you really don’t think about what’s going on with your email or texts or any of that. You’re just a lot more liberated.’ – Leven Rambin

‘I don’t want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, ‘There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.” – Angela Kinsey

‘Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.’ – Angela Kinsey

‘I love the ocean, but I’m just not one to lie on the beach.’ – Naomi Judd

‘The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you’re out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn’t matter if you have academic degrees, or if you’re a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.’ – Rachael Taylor

‘Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.’ – Jeff Goodell

‘Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it’s that mix of people, it’s that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it’s maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we’re doing the right thing.’ – Eric Ripert

‘There is no substitute for a real location when you’re trying to shoot the jungle. You can’t just go anywhere. You’ve got to go where it’s lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.’ – Rachelle Lefevre

‘When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don’t think I would make the best marine biologist.’ – Victoria Justice

‘I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.’ – Chris Weitz

‘U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.’ – C. Robert Kehler

‘No, I’m not very productive at all. I’m probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I’m someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I’ll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.’ – Jonathan Ames

‘Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘I’ll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don’t know, I’m just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.’ – Helen Mirren

‘Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade – whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.’ – Aimee Teegarden

‘I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he’s created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like ‘Novacane.” – Curtis Jackson

‘We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘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

‘Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.’ – 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

‘The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That, in turn, influences the temperature of the planet. The Arctic is now vulnerable because of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a rate of melting that is stunning.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘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

‘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 hate to compare anything, especially while I’m promoting. I feel that’s another disrespect, but ‘Ocean’s 13′ is the best movie I’ve ever done in my life. No question.’ – Bernie Mac

‘Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.’ – LaToya Jackson

‘As a species, we’ve always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.’ – Paul Allen

‘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.’ – Carl Safina

‘As a young boy, I was very interested – as I still am – in all sorts of adventure and exploration. I thought about being an astronaut, a dinosaur scientist, or marine biologist, but I clearly was drawn to the ocean and to the water.’ – Brian Skerry

‘I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.’ – Brian Skerry

‘I’d heard that swimming feels so good when you’re pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.’ – Marisa Miller

‘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

‘For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.’ – Antonio Damasio

‘When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.’ – Bertrand Piccard

‘My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean… For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.’ – Bertrand Piccard

‘I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we’ve explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.’ – Edith Widder

‘We’ve only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there – fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can’t even imagine.’ – Edith Widder

‘Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It’s the psychology that’s important.’ – Roz Savage

‘The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.’ – Enric Sala

‘The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what’s happening because of overfishing.’ – Enric Sala

‘I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.’ – Ana de la Reguera

‘I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.’ – George Smoot

‘The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet – nobody gets that yet.’ – Graham Hawkes

‘At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.’ – Harvey V. Fineberg

‘Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.’ – Jane Poynter

‘With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.’ – Nathan Wolfe

‘One day in ’61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan’s house on Sundays just talking about comedy.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘I’ve always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There’s nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.’ – Matthew Underwood

‘I enjoy being in Toronto – there’s lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods – but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.’ – Laura Mennell

‘I love Frank Ocean. I think he’s so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like ‘Bad Religion’ or ‘Pink Matter.” – Jacob Artist

‘My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It’s great leverage; we abuse it all the time!’ – Matt Barr

‘How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.’ – Denis Leary

‘Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean… Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘I cut a rap song once. It was a few years ago for my old show ‘Buck Commander,’ and it was a song called ‘You’re Short.’ It was about my camera guy. We shot the video in Las Vegas, ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ style! – Willie Robertson’ – Willie Robertson

‘I have two houses in California, and they’re both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.’ – Marisa Miller

‘I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can ‘pray away the gay;’ I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it’s okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.’ – Sophia Bush

‘I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.’ – James Cameron

‘I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn’t the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.’ – James Cameron

‘The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.’ – Bjork

‘Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.’ – Bjork

‘I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.’ – John Malkovich

‘I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I’m not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don’t have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It’s an unrequited love with nature – a one-way love affair.’ – David Duchovny

‘In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn’t get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn’t have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘Where you record is very important. It can’t be too nice, it can’t be too expensive, it can’t have a view to an ocean or a field.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it’s the ocean, or in L.A. it’s Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water.’ – David Hasselhoff

‘As a kid, I did some running but especially loved biking and swimming. I grew up on Long Island, and our mom took us all the time to the ocean, so I grew up doing open-water swimming in the Atlantic.’ – Alice Dreger

‘I’ve seen sharks in the ocean, it hasn’t made me get out of the ocean; that’s for sure.’ – Luke Hemsworth

‘For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle.’ – Diane Paulus

‘It is beautiful in Vancouver; let’s face it. I mean, you have the ocean. There’s mountains.’ – Eric Close

‘I love all the arts – so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.’ – Aimee Bender

‘I wonder what it’s like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America’s first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon – it’s a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet – as if the ocean somehow doesn’t matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘You know how Bed Bath & Beyond sells those white noise machines that help you sleep? And they usually make ocean noises? I want one that’s just David Gergen gently muttering about the economy.’ – Jessi Klein

‘I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It’s awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.’ – Deirdre Lovejoy

‘The ocean is 90% unexplored. It’s a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It’s more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It’s alien, but it’s terrestrial.’ – Geoff Johns

‘We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It’s as alien as going to outer space.’ – Geoff Johns

‘The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It’s our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting.’ – Scott Peters

‘In Congress, I am focused on the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and sea-level rise – both of which are threats to healthy oceans that sustain life on- and off-shore.’ – Scott Peters

‘I’m continuing to learn more about music – it’s an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I’m grateful that I’m still living and making music among the greats.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean’s ‘Pyramids’ is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.’ – Kyle Abraham

‘I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay’s house, and I thought that was the best thing I’d ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.’ – Alice Waters

‘My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. ‘Thinking Of You’ is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.’ – Bella Thorne

‘Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.’ – Genesis Rodriguez

‘Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean’s edge, are one of Sydney’s defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.’ – Raymond Bonner

‘I loved the sound of the ocean, the breaking surf, the vastness, but still didn’t feel terribly comfortable in it.’ – Raymond Bonner

‘Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don’t change our relationship with the sea.’ – Greg MacGillivray

‘Not only have I made films about the subject, but I’ve largely funded them on my own, so I’m fully committed to doing whatever I can to change the audience’s respect and appreciation for the ocean. In 100 years I want whales, dolphins and sharks to still be around, and the ocean to be a healthier place.’ – Greg MacGillivray

‘I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.’ – Greg MacGillivray

‘I’ve been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.’ – Greg MacGillivray

‘The ocean is our planet’s life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I’ve seen its degradation firsthand.’ – Greg MacGillivray

‘Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.’ – Shashi Tharoor

‘The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it’s a very simple plot – there’s only one white whale in the ocean. When you’re a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it’s unique: it’s happening only to you.’ – Gavin O’Connor

‘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

‘There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.’ – Alice Morse Earle

‘If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.’ – Henry Williamson

‘I’m not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that’s wrong. If you’re going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I’m definitely not a big fan.’ – Bethany Hamilton

‘I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like any other surfer, I try to read the ocean. It’s always changing and moving – doing its own thing – so you need to learn how it works and how to position yourself.’ – Bethany Hamilton

‘Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.’ – Deb Caletti

‘We know about man’s impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don’t really know much about what’s happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.’ – Rose George

‘Light doesn’t penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.’ – Rose George

‘In practice, the ocean is the world’s wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.’ – Rose George

‘There’s no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It’s responsible for the substantial amplitude of earthly ocean tides. These are of obvious influence if you’re a geoduck, a type of clam that people dig up at low tide.’ – Seth Shostak

‘About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we’re living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there’s nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.’ – Diana Nyad

‘The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I’ve been dipped in. And I’m yelling out, ‘Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!’ And the next thing is paralysis.’ – Diana Nyad

‘As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.’ – Paul Watson

‘I want to stay in the ocean. I’m not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.’ – Paul Watson

‘Every fish in the ocean is in danger.’ – Paul Watson

‘Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It’s the fastest fish. It’s a warm-blooded fish. But it’s got a $100,000 price tag on its head.’ – Paul Watson

‘Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.’ – Dimitar Sasselov

‘We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn’t happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.’ – Jim Yong Kim

‘You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you’re gonna take and which waves you’re not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.’ – Alan Arkin

‘Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.’ – Jami Attenberg

‘Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.’ – Neneh Cherry

‘The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you’re dealing with tides and currents – factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for ‘constant eyes on,’ and it’s something I never forget.’ – Summer Sanders

‘I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.’ – Aaron Peirsol

‘I miss the ocean; I miss Fenway.’ – John King

”Ocean’s Kingdom’ is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance – it’s not about anything except its water-logged plot.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘The ‘7500’ is with Leslie Bibb. It’s a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It’s going to do what ‘Jaws’ did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!’ – Johnathon Schaech

‘It’s either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don’t feel very good. And that’s what life’s about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.’ – Greg Cipes

‘Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.’ – Inga Muscio

‘Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world’s protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans’ health declines, our very survival is at risk.’ – Brian Skerry

‘I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.’ – Tamara Feldman

‘Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.’ – Peter Middlebrook

‘Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless – the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.’ – Alan Huffman

‘The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader’s globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.’ – Alan Huffman

‘My daughter has probably gotten some benefit of being inspired by a woman who is willing to take on things. We travel. We travel to exotic places. I’m the first person to jump in the ocean with a whale. Even if I’m scared, I’ll do it anyway, because I never wanted her to see fear, especially when she was younger.’ – Teri Hatcher

‘Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what’s around you. If you’re around people who are supportive and positive, that’s how you look at the world.’ – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

‘In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Pakistan and Turkey as a southward shield against Soviet expansion toward the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. It was part of the containment strategy.’ – Wesley Clark

‘I was at our beautiful home in Martha’s Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, ‘Would I like to do ‘CSI’?’ A week later, I’m at a coroner’s office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.’ – Ted Danson

‘I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn’t take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I’m a board member of Oceana, the world’s largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.’ – Ted Danson

‘The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.’ – Ted Danson

‘Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.’ – Ted Danson

‘I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.’ – Ted Danson

‘I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It’s the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.’ – Isabella Rossellini

‘Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for the ship to return to port.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Of course the Japanese and Peruvian fish are different, but it’s the same Pacific Ocean. They are different, but I know fish.’ – Nobu Matsuhisa

‘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

‘I am just so appreciative of God’s love. It’s higher than any mountain, wider than any ocean, and wider than the whole universe. His love is just that amazing!’ – Fred Hammond

‘Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.’ – John Van Hamersveld

‘I love Frank Ocean. We’re going to get married. In true life, we should get married.’ – Alex Newell

‘There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.’ – Donella Meadows

‘Everything in L.A. is – it’s just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there’s an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.’ – Spike Jonze

‘During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal – which in fact it was, because it was nature.’ – Luanne Rice

‘There’s a magical energy and power from the ocean. I was born in a room overlooking the sea, in the middle of a storm. Perhaps, then, it’s not surprising that shores touch my soul. Science might disagree, but I think there’s a difference in the air on a coast – the positive ions, perhaps.’ – Jo Beverley

‘The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In ‘Kid vs. Squid,’ the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ what’s at stake is the survival of the human species.’ – Greg van Eekhout

‘My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think I learn pretty well under pressure.’ – Benjamin Booker

‘In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.’ – Mona Simpson

‘I’m often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I’m looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.’ – Dan Gilroy

‘From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.’ – Brendon Urie

‘Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they’re the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.’ – Craig Venter

‘When I was 7, I went to school in Switzerland because everyone on my mom’s side of the family lives there. Then we were back in Australia, in Queensland. That’s where we had the chance to have lots of different animals. I spent a lot of time living in nature and building cubby houses in big old trees by the ocean.’ – Isabel Lucas

‘I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you’re standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.’ – Action Bronson

‘Australia’s arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it.’ – Robyn Davidson

‘I’m a sun and ocean guy.’ – Jussie Smollett

‘As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘When I was filming ‘Lost,’ we’d be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.’ – Henry Ian Cusick

‘No matter how wonderful the story, it has to move on something, and that is language. The words that I use, the pace, the rhythm and cadences all need to be there. If they’re not there, the story is like a boat that just sits there and doesn’t move on the ocean.’ – Tim O’Brien

‘I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.’ – Nikki Reed

”The Moonstone’ was all I could have hoped for. A mysterious, cursed jewel, wrested from India, only to be stolen later from a great British mansion. Enigmatic, dangerous priests who follow it across the ocean in hopes of wresting it back.’ – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

‘My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn’t changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean – one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.’ – Clive Sinclair

‘I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!’ – Barry Sternlicht

‘If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.’ – Theodor Mommsen

‘I love and am terrified of the water, particularly the ocean.’ – Nnedi Okorafor

‘I love ocean life. I’m fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They’ve got the same amount of sodium, too.’ – Nnedi Okorafor

‘I really feel that there are things in the ocean that we have no idea about.’ – Ving Rhames

‘I think there’s so much we don’t know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that’s been there before mankind.’ – Ving Rhames

‘Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.’ – Evan Osnos

‘If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished manuscript, trying to make your way across that vast ocean in a bathtub, I can only say this to you: keep paddling. Well, either that or start vlogging.’ – John Niven

‘Over the years, I found myself traveling parts of the Lewis and Clark Trail, putting my hands in the river where they set out from St. Louis, viewing the Great Falls of Montana, standing by the same Pacific Ocean they saw with such joy.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘When I got the job with ‘Superman,’ it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I’m part of a great team.’ – Gene Luen Yang

‘There’s nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.’ – Shawn Mendes

‘I’d like to work with Florence and The Machine, Little Dragon, Frank Ocean, Miguel, Calvin Harris… there are so many artists and producers.’ – Wynter Gordon

‘To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it’s waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.’ – Gregory Benford

‘Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.’ – Gregory Benford

‘In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun’s bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean’s food chain.’ – Gregory Benford

‘I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out – I’d still probably survive, but not very well, and that’s what we’re doing to the ocean. It’s the life support system of this planet. We’ve been dumping in it, we’ve been polluting it, we’ve been destroying it for decades, and we’re essentially maiming ourselves.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘Don’t eat shrimp – it’s one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that’s caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It’s the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I’d recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘Our oceans are facing innumerable threats – from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species – yet we haven’t had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname ‘the other carbon problem.’ As they do so, the oceans become more acidic with terrible consequences.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories – stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we’re all connected; we’re all in this together.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘We’ve explored very little of the ocean. We really don’t know what’s out there. But people think we’ve figured it all out.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn’t see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.’ – Helen Sharman

‘One of the reasons that New York became great was that it’s serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it’s serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.’ – Donald Trump

‘Views are overrated; it’s light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami’s South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room – it never gets old.’ – Michael Graves

‘Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.’ – Clive Granger

”Downton Abbey’ is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order – whose passing ‘Downton’s’ creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns – is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.’ – Steve Erickson

‘I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.’ – Heather Graham

‘The first time I almost died was surfing: I got hit on the head with a board. I went under and started swimming until I hit the bottom of the ocean. I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m going the wrong way. Do I have enough air to get back up?’ If you’re a surfer, you know the feeling.’ – Robert David Hall

‘I know it’s odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you’re going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there – and it takes longer to get to the surface.’ – Brie Larson

‘The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.’ – Margaret Stohl

‘I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there’s no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.’ – Baltasar Kormakur

‘The great Satyr and Tiger of Hyrcania presents a gift to those of the Ocean; A fleet’s chief will set out from Carmania, one who will take land at the Tyrren Phocaean.’ – Nostradamus

‘Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.’ – Christopher Columbus

‘I had some friends that went to this hypnotist to stop smoking, and I kind of love things that seem magical. And I liked that it was in Santa Monica, and I had to go near the ocean to get my brain washed out or whatever. So I went there. And I went on a Thursday, and I got hypnotized.’ – Jenny Slate

‘You cannot stop an Islamist tsunami by building a small island somewhere in the ocean.’ – Avigdor Lieberman

‘Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It’s a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.’ – Naftali Bennett

‘Isn’t it crazy to think that we’ve explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.’ – James Wan

‘I loved ‘Jaws.’ I think that is not really a horror film, but it made me afraid of the ocean for a very long time.’ – James Wan

‘I never liked going in the ocean.’ – Albert Brooks

‘Deep ocean drilling is not new.’ – Phil Gingrey

‘For the life of me, I can’t understand why BP couldn’t go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the – around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that – seal that leak. And seal it permanently.’ – Phil Gingrey

‘People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska’s North Slope, a vast tundra, flat and treeless, on and on and on, from the foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range to the Arctic Ocean, an endless, unchanging landscape bigger than Idaho.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas

‘I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘What came out of ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ is actually great because you do one ‘Ocean’s Twelve,’ and you’re more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.’ – Vincent Cassel

‘Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn’t allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from ‘Solaris’ to ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ and ‘Thirteen.” – Vincent Cassel

‘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

‘I love Rome for their calzones and New York City for the variety of quality eateries, but I absolutely fell in love with Miami for the stone crabs at Joe’s just off Ocean Drive – the best I’ve ever had, and the Cajun food. The steaks out there are colossal – it’s like having a shark and a cow on your plate.’ – Paul Hollywood

‘I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.’ – Edith Widder

‘There’s a lot of animals in the open ocean – most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that’s where things get really strange.’ – Edith Widder

‘In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle’s TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.’ – Edith Widder

‘We’ve only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can’t even yet imagine.’ – Edith Widder

‘We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.’ – Edith Widder

‘Giant squid aren’t rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it’s thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven’t seen them.’ – Edith Widder

‘If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals – in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net – make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.’ – Edith Widder

‘One of the things that’s frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.’ – Edith Widder

‘The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I’ve made hundreds of dives in submersibles.’ – Edith Widder

‘Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these – a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.’ – Edith Widder

‘If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.’ – Edith Widder

‘It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.’ – Edith Widder

‘I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn’t use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.’ – Edith Widder

‘At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘I love Frank Ocean. For me, ‘Channel Orange’ is the best LP ever. I love his voice, the songwriting, everything.’ – Stormzy

‘I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.’ – Alek Wek

‘My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called ‘Sea Hunt.’ He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘I don’t vacation on the water. I’m a pale-skinned redhead; I get sunburned out there. I’m a little frightened of the ocean, in fact. But I just know there’s great drama out there.’ – Ron Howard

‘We’re working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.’ – Dean Kamen

‘I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, ‘mauka to makai,’ mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.’ – Auli’i Cravalho

‘Moana doesn’t have a love interest because this movie is about a journey – a physical one across hundreds and hundreds of miles of ocean, but also an emotional one of Moana finding herself. She doesn’t need a man or love interest to find herself.’ – Auli’i Cravalho

‘I’ve had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York.’ – Frank McCourt

‘Right whales – so named because they were ‘the right whale to kill’ – grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.’ – Nathaniel Philbrick

‘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

‘One way to understand light in the ocean of air is by flying it. Life in the air is an extension of perceiving.’ – James Turrell

‘It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’ the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘For those not so taken by the star power, this new ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ is the equivalent of a domineering team you can’t stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don’t like the players, the odds are so good that it’s tough to bet against them.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘I simply think that water is the image of time, and every New Year’s Eve, in somewhat pagan fashion, I try to find myself near water, preferably near a sea or an ocean, to watch the emergence of a new helping, a new cupful of time from it.’ – Joseph Brodsky

‘So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.’ – Donald Trump

‘Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.’ – Lisa Murkowski

‘I like going in the ocean and leaving my hair for two days with the saltwater beachy look. I think that is part of the reason I would love to cut my hair short. I just wouldn’t ever have to think about it.’ – Emily Ratajkowski

‘I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.’ – Craig Sager

‘To this day, I haven’t seen ‘Jaws.’ Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, ‘See the movies that you want to, but I’m telling you, do not ever see Jaws.” – Maika Monroe

‘I love ‘Ocean Avenue’ by Yellowcard. That’s always been one of my favorites.’ – Cassadee Pope

‘Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?’ – John Paul Jones

‘Science is a highly technical and intellectual endeavor. Any theory or fact or discovery has an ocean of depth to it. You can always go deeper with science, and you can always ask a new and interesting question. That’s what makes a topic nerdy: depth.’ – Kyle Hill

‘Frank Ocean would be incredible; I’d love to be a sponge and absorb everything he says. Every song he puts out, I’m like, ‘Why didn’t I think of this?” – Alessia Cara

‘If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism’s carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.’ – Paul Craig Roberts

‘Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.’ – Adam West

‘I got a record with Frank Ocean.’ – Quavo

‘I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.’ – Quavo

‘Whether there’s even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.’ – Alan Stern

‘Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.’ – Alan Stern

‘The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn’t expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.’ – Alan Stern

‘There’s too much we don’t know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.’ – Tom Holland

‘I can only envision and feel the pain of these animals being stuck in a tiny aquarium. Normally, orcas swim 100 miles a day. They’re free in the ocean.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ and ‘The Taming of the Shrew’. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.’ – Jeffrey Tambor

‘Orca family members belong together at home in the ocean, not isolated in tiny tanks at SeaWorld. If you believe that a mother should never have to know the pain of having her child torn away from her, boycott SeaWorld.’ – Holly Marie Combs

‘Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.’ – Claire Messud

‘I’m excited to go surfing every time. I have fun in any kind of wave in the ocean.’ – John John Florence

‘There was a summer in college where I worked for a stretch picking up garbage at the beach. On the early shift, it was very meditative walking the shoreline and crisscrossing the sand, picking up the junk people had dropped or tossed or that the ocean had returned. And there was this strange fantasy element to it.’ – Nathan Englander

‘The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it’s only a layperson’s obsession. The way I visualise what’s at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I’m swimming in the sea.’ – Wangechi Mutu

‘Nature. That’s the one thing that tips the balance in terms of living here in California. Within minutes, I can be in a desert, at the ocean, in a park, and that’s the most nourishing food for my soul.’ – Lara Pulver

‘I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.’ – Wilfred Owen

‘The opening scene from ‘Sharknado’ I think was better than the original ‘Jaws’ movie. It was scarier, it was bloodier, and it had more high-anxiety moments than the original ‘Jaws’ movie. And that movie kept me out of the ocean for a summer.’ – Ian Ziering

‘I think it’s important for History to keep experimenting with their shows. The more documentary-driven, the returning series, are the bottom of the iceberg under the ocean that keeps it moving, and then it’s important to take those swings and see if we can ignite a spark with new audiences.’ – Nancy Dubuc

‘There’s a Diebenkorn painting – ‘Ocean Park No. 68′ – that is the color of a swimming pool and always reminds me of summers at the beach.’ – Tory Burch

‘The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.’ – Daniel Berehulak

‘Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you’re like, ‘What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?” – Jim James

‘I’ve never stared out at the ocean while I’ve made a record before – that enhances things in a strange way.’ – Jim James

‘When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.’ – Angus Deaton

‘I’d love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He’s one of my favorite artists of all time.’ – Khalid

‘I think there’s a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.’ – Joe Russo

‘If I put the sound of the ocean on, that’s going to do something to you. And I know what that is because it does it to me, too.’ – Brian Reitzell

‘A couple of days working with Joe Jonas, I thought, ‘This guy is a slayer of a singer; he’s really funny, goofy, and sexy. We need to write that.’ And that led to ‘Cake By The Ocean.” – Justin Tranter

‘Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.’ – Brian Schatz

‘Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world’s information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world.’ – Trevor Paglen

‘An ocean of ink – real and virtual – has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.’ – Nell Scovell

‘A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it’s a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.’ – Ma Yansong

‘When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a distressed ocean liner? When the pinstripes of his Yankees shirt have grown wider at the midsection than at the top, as the longitudinal lines on a globe?’ – Steve Rushin

‘I can’t putt. The reasons are infinite. When lining up a putt, I can’t remember if the ball always breaks to the ocean or to the valley or away from Pinnacle Peak. And because I took up the game in Minnesota, in what is often called Middle America, I also grew up asking, ‘To which ocean does it break?” – Steve Rushin

‘I don’t know a single surfer who would say, ‘Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.” – Terri Irwin

‘I think there’s something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings you back to earth and kind of reminds you that your problems are quite small in retrospect.’ – Lili Reinhart

‘The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system… and, also, the definition of ‘habitable zone’ has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we’ve got an ocean on Europa… Titan.’ – Frank Drake

‘I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that’s by the water.’ – John F. Kerry

‘Push the envelope too far as a female artist, and you may only earn an ocean of ink expressing concern for your delicate constitution, amounting to a caution against playing on traditionally male wavelengths.’ – Michelle Dean

‘There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.’ – Jeff Vandermeer

‘I remember, with Kendrick on ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ I was in tears. I literally was because it had pulled me and pushed me and stretched me and crushed me and expanded me. It was like I didn’t know which way was up. By the end of it, I felt like I was floating in the ocean like a carcass.’ – Thundercat

‘I don’t like the ocean. I’m not a natural swimmer, even though I come from Australia. That’ a terrible thing to say.’ – Geoffrey Rush

‘After I posted the picture of Frank Ocean, I think his little brother called him and said the picture was all over the Internet, so Frank Ocean was like, ‘I’m not on social media like that, but it’s cool. I’m not mad about it.” – Rich the Kid

‘Everybody seen me talking to Frank Ocean, so they know something is coming, so something is coming with Frank Ocean – just wait on it – and, you know, people were just like, ‘Whoa, Rich the Kid found Frank Ocean!” – Rich the Kid

‘With ‘Black Sea,’ I long had an idea that I wanted to do a film about people stuck on the bottom of the ocean. I thought that was a terrifying scenario.’ – Kevin Macdonald

‘This is just a long shot, but I definitely would want to work with Frank Ocean. He’s the man.’ – Kodie Shane

‘I’d love to work with Kendrick, Frank Ocean, The Internet, or Alanis Morisette!’ – Anne-Marie

‘There’s an ocean of misunderstanding. It’s called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military – who they are, what burdens they carry.’ – Mary Gauthier

‘As far as Europa goes, Europa very likely has an ocean under its surface. In that regard, Europa and Enceladus are on equal par. But on Europa, the ocean is at least several kilometers under the surface, and the moon is bathed in an intense radiation field.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘Voyager’s passage through Saturn’s inner system exposed diverse moons with dynamic forces at work. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, whose surface remained invisible through its thick, ubiquitous haze, nonetheless teased observers with hints of a possible ocean of liquid hydrocarbons.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘Even if the ocean on Enceladus starts out being as microbially poor as the pelagic ocean on Earth, which is the worst case, we still have a chance of seeing lots of organisms in the plumes.’ – Carolyn Porco

‘A deep ocean under the icy crust of Ganymede opens up further exciting possibilities for life beyond Earth.’ – John M. Grunsfeld

‘Ultimately, I would love to do ‘The Emperor of Ocean Park’ by Stephen Carter.’ – Wendell Pierce

‘One of my dreams was always to have a piano – a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.’ – Paul Rodgers

‘I live just above a creek, and it’s always very active. It almost sounds like the ocean. It’s constant, and there’s lots of big rocks in it, so it’s got a great sound. It’s one of my favorite things.’ – Lizz Wright

‘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.’ – Kerry James Marshall

‘My friends started making music, and then I started making covers because I was like, ‘I don’t have anything to write, but I like music.’ So I would just cover Frank Ocean songs.’ – Clairo

‘The ocean is very comfortable. I could never live inland.’ – Ry Cooder

‘Marvin Gaye, I’m super influenced by him. D’Angelo, Donny Hathaway. All the old school cats. New people, I like M83. I like Coldplay. I love Frank Ocean. Miguel. I get inspired by all these cats. People don’t know that me and Frank Ocean went to high school together.’ – Luke James

‘The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and women who ruled the British Empire slowly sailing to India and the Far East while sipping gin and tonic on deck – served by men in white jackets.’ – Adam Curtis

‘My dad taught at the University of Melbourne. I visited Sydney another time. Then we went up to Cairns, then down the Great Ocean Road. I have friends from Perth, where I’ve never been, so I’d love to do that.’ – Miriam Shor

‘I feel comfortable in Chiba. There’s more fresh air, and you can see the ocean.’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘I’m terrified of the ocean. I think it’s beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it – I think that’s a metaphor for a lot of things.’ – David Harbour

‘It turns out, if you go 1,000 feet down in the ocean, it’s really dark, and the animals are really strange, but if you put on some Pink Floyd, it’s fantastic.’ – Paul Allen

‘Many beach locales offer surf lessons, and you get a different perspective of the ocean when you’re out on the water.’ – Katie Lee

‘I’m massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it’s always great when he decides to release music.’ – Dan Smith

‘There’s a deodorant I wear called Baux, from L’Occitane, that is super nostalgic because it reminds me of being in Greece in the summer. When I put it on, I’m immediately taken back to that feeling of having salty skin and hair from the ocean and the taste of fresh fish.’ – Antoni Porowski

‘Frank Ocean is super dope! He’s like a ghost. He’s, like, not really real. I didn’t think he was real until I met him.’ – Lil Yachty

‘I like to go surfing because I want to feel the ocean and experience nature, and nature fixes my balance, and this life is crazy sometimes, so it helps a wrestler’s life because a wrestler’s life is crazy sometimes.’ – Shinsuke Nakamura

‘I wasn’t really a beach boy. I was a city boy, afraid of the ocean.’ – Brian Ortega

‘Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you’re an actor. Put me in a cage, I’m a fighter. Put me somewhere else – I’m in an ocean, I’m a surfer. I don’t know what I am, I just do it all. And I want to be good at everything.’ – Brian Ortega

‘Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of mathematics was navigating the ocean. This is no longer so relevant.’ – Terence Tao

‘I’m listening to Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino. I’m just trying to just get as many different inspirations as I can. I love artists that can adapt and have different styles.’ – Rich Brian

‘What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.’ – Alex Grey

‘I took Kira to a nice dinner at a place called Moonshadows in Malibu, which is by the ocean, and I organized it so a school of young dolphins swam by our table. I took her for a long walk on the beach after dinner, and I told her all the things I love about her. Then I asked her to marry me.’ – John Morrison

‘Most sponges in the ocean are sedentary: They attach themselves to a rock and sit and filter-feed the rest of their lives and reproduce, and that’s about it. Not that they are not interesting, but they are not that kinetic. They are not mobile. They don’t cook Krabbie Patties!’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘A lot of things came out of my interest in marine biology, like the fact that there are scallops that fly in the air, and in SpongeBob’s world, scallops swim the same way in the ocean.’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called ‘Rocko’s Modern Life,’ and I was interested at the time in doing a show about the ocean, an undersea show.’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into animation.’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘Anything that’s outdoorsy and fun, like hiking, biking, running, paddleboarding, swimming in the ocean… and then I’ll mix in Pilates, yoga, spin, ballet.’ – Beth Behrs

‘The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.’ – Cenk Uygur

‘I don’t live in L.A. or in New York. I live in Virginia by the ocean.’ – Terry O’Quinn

‘I would love to be a part of a project like ‘Ocean’s 8,’ if such a film is ever made in India.’ – Parineeti Chopra

‘The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.’ – Ludovico Einaudi

‘With new oil and gas discoveries, Africa’s energy exporters will have to invest in defence capability and work with other Indian Ocean powers to ensure security of sea lanes.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘When I was 18, I moved across the ocean just for the opportunity to play for a club that played against Barcelona. So to have the honour of playing for Barca? It was incredible.’ – Dani Alves

‘I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.’ – Elin Hilderbrand

‘All of the people in L.A. are really nice, and it’s sunny all the time. Plus, there’s so much to do there. You can go hiking in the hills, you can go swimming in the ocean, you can go surfing… You can do everything.’ – Danielle Campbell

‘When I first started out, they were like, ‘Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we’ll see what we can do?’ And I went, ‘I like Malay,’ who’s Frank Ocean’s producer, and they were like, ‘Not going to happen.’ It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.’ – Lewis Capaldi

‘Frank Ocean – I have so much respect for him.’ – Jessie Reyez

‘I’d love to work with Frank Ocean. I really like his music.’ – Ludwig Goransson

‘We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘I used to do interviews – I still do – interviews every day, all day. And you go from maybe doing a couple of professional interviews, where you can hear the sound right, to everyone else sounds like they’re at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.’ – Ian Gillan

‘For me, it’s about eating a bunch of fruit and exercising, which opens up the creativity, makes it easier to give ideas a chance and bubble to the surface. I’m no angel, but it helps me, as does hiking, heading to the ocean to catch some waves – for me, sweating it out is definitely good for the creative process.’ – Matt Skiba

‘I’d like to do something with Frank Ocean, you know, and I love working with Thundercat, and I’d love to do more with him.’ – Michael McDonald

‘I’m a shark, and I swam in a lot of different ponds, but I’m ready for the ocean.’ – Matt Riddle

‘Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.’ – Yung Lean

‘Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness of the ocean. I turn every light off, and I turn the stereo on, and I just go in my mind, cry, talk to God, tell him, ‘I’m your child, too.’ And I stay in my little solitude until I can get the strength to go outdoors.’ – Charles Bradley

‘I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for ‘Siren’ to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.’ – Eline Powell

‘When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.’ – Roy Choi

‘Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.’ – Will Hurd

‘For Dad, service took him many unexpected places. It summoned him and his crew mates to the skies over the Pacific Ocean in World War II. It took him to Capitol Hill, Beijing and eventually the Oval Office.’ – Neil Bush

‘I love to swim in the ocean in big waves.’ – Martha MacCallum

‘I saw my country first. Because, whoever gets up into space from whichever nationality, the first thing they do is they look out for their country. That is what I did. The Indian peninsula with the ocean on all three sides. And it was a beautiful sight.’ – Rakesh Sharma

‘I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris’ Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.’ – Jill Biden

‘I want to do everything I can in my own life to protect and preserve the ocean.’ – Cody Simpson

‘I live in Hawaii part time and love shooting the ocean, both long exposures that capture the movement of water and with a fast shutter speed to freeze the power and force of a wave.’ – Tom Anderson

‘Integrated coastal zone management procedures involving concurrent attention to both the landward and seaward site of the ocean and to coastal forestry and agro-forestry as well as capture and culture fisheries are urgently needed.’ – M. S. Swaminathan

‘Shangri-La is one of the few studios in which you can sit in the control room and open a window behind you. You can feel the light and the air coming off the ocean. You can have a musical world in front of you and the natural world behind you.’ – Rostam Batmanglij

‘I’m always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.’ – Ari Lennox

‘In Hawaii we understand why it is important to malama, or take care of, our land, ocean, and air – our way of life depends on it.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘Clear Moon’ is more… clear I guess! It’s more round-sounding and it’s slightly gentler. ‘Ocean Roar’ is more challenging and weird and darker and heavier – the idea was for it to feel like a thick fog laying on your head, versus a clear sky with the moon in it.’ – Phil Elverum

‘In Missouri, we built the steamships that plied the Mississippi. It was people of Missouri who believed that a human being could fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. And it was Missourians who built the capsule in which an American first orbited the earth.’ – Eric Greitens

‘Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.’ – Max Boot

‘The most autobiographical thing I’ve ever written is my second novel, called ‘An Ocean in Iowa.’ That is pretty close to my childhood.’ – Peter Hedges

‘As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine.’ – George Monbiot

‘I envisioned an extremely long network of floating barriers – they’re like curtains floating in the ocean which are attached to the seabed. So what happens is that the current comes around and plastic gets pushed towards these barriers. And because it’s in a V-shape, the plastic gets push towards the center.’ – Boyan Slat

‘Really, the ocean itself – that’s really the thing that we’re up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.’ – Boyan Slat

‘I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean.’ – Boyan Slat

‘Coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic. But the thing is, in those vast ocean garbage patches, there’s simply no coastlines to catch any plastic. So we built our own artificial coastline.’ – Boyan Slat

‘About once a month, a vessel visits each of these clean-up systems, almost like a garbage truck of the ocean, would bring the plastic back to shore where it would then be processed and recycled into new products that we would then sell, at a premium, of course, because we could sell it as being made out of ocean plastic.’ – Boyan Slat

‘I’ve gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.’ – Boyan Slat

‘For 60 years man has been putting plastic into the ocean. And from that day onward we’re also taking it back out again.’ – Boyan Slat

‘We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.’ – Boyan Slat

‘We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.’ – Boyan Slat

‘When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is way too rough, the issue of bycatch – ‘plastic is too big, plastic is too small.” – Boyan Slat

‘The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered the ocean, that plastic would stay there, probably for hundreds of years.’ – Boyan Slat

‘We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.’ – Boyan Slat

‘The way the clean-up system works is that we let the plastic come to us, using the ocean currents in our advantage.’ – Boyan Slat

‘Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.’ – Boyan Slat

‘There are already dozens of organizations working on trying to prevent plastic from going into the ocean, through advocacy, education, awareness, all great work, yet nobody was addressing the stock of existing pollution.’ – Boyan Slat

‘I’ve always had a deep connection with the ocean, and could never see myself landlocked.’ – Brad Leone

‘I am very proud of rowing the Atlantic Ocean.’ – Ben Fogle

‘In some ways, I’m in danger of doing too many things to be able to appreciate and enjoy them. I look forward to thinking back to carrying the Olympic torch, or going to the Royal Wedding, when I’m in the middle of the ocean on my own far from anywhere – that’s when I’ll relive those moments.’ – Ben Fogle

‘I don’t think you can ever get closer to the natural world, than just a man – as in mankind – in an ocean, just you and it. It’s not about conquering the ocean, it’s about working with it.’ – Ben Fogle

‘Clean air and clean ocean, you can’t translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery industry.’ – Severn Cullis-Suzuki

‘The Haida people taught me when you are depleted, go to places that are sacred for you – the ocean, or a forest. That is where you will find incredible energy.’ – Severn Cullis-Suzuki

‘I found myself reading about this 16-year-old kid inventing a micro-organism to save the ocean. It made me realise that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Even with all the damage and destruction, things can heal if we let them.’ – Oliver Sykes

‘I love DJing and being asked to DJ at the Ocean Beach club was something I couldn’t refuse; once I got on the decks and saw everyone dancing I felt in my element!’ – Vogue Williams

‘I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It’s calm, but brave – it’s life.’ – Karol G

‘When I get by the ocean, that’s the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.’ – Karol G

‘I was just a huge fan of Blur, Suede, Elastica and Pulp, of course, even Menswear and Ocean Colour Scene.’ – Devendra Banhart

‘Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It’s not so literal. It’s like a David Lynch movie.’ – Cedric Bixler-Zavala

‘When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘I’ve gone from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean.’ – Kell Brook

‘I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn’t call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.’ – Bart Millard

‘Frank Ocean is definitely amazing.’ – The-Dream

‘I’m scared of heights and I’m scared of the ocean.’ – Baron Davis

‘At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.’ – Sasha Spielberg

‘Once I had gone for a shoot at a remote Fiji island in the middle of Pacific Ocean and I was thoroughly bowled over the popularity of this character there! I’ve also got positive feedback from U.K., U.S.A., Canada, Pakistan and Dubai for my performance as Brahmanad.’ – Vishwajeet Pradhan

‘I feel like there’s no reason to put myself through what I put myself through for 20-something years on airplanes, especially these days. You don’t know whether your pilot is going to drop dead over the ocean; you don’t know when you try to land whether the wheels are going to come down; you can be searched and seized and detained and quarantined.’ – Jim Cornette

‘All of us, including me, can work on our skills. Music is such a huge ocean, you can never feel that you know everything. There will always be something that you can learn.’ – Neeti Mohan

‘Despite being an ocean apart, New York’s ESG and France’s Lizzy Mercier Descloux were shooting for roughly the same idea: disco beats with a rough and energetic presentation.’ – Anthony Fantano

‘I grew up in Newquay and lived close to the ocean for a few years in New Zealand, too. I’m instinctively happy in those surroundings.’ – Phillip Schofield

‘I got a lot of praise and attention post ‘Kai Po Che’ but I was thrown into a big ocean suddenly.’ – Amit Sadh

‘I didn’t want to crash into the ocean, but from watching Han Solo navigate an asteroid field to watching movies like ‘Perfect Storm,’ it would always kind of get my adrenaline up, and I knew it was something I wanted to do.’ – MJ Hegar

‘We must commit to a positive programme of ocean recovery to combat the effects of climate breakdown, and boost our oceans’ capacity to tackle climate change.’ – Barry Gardiner

‘I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.’ – Joe Buck

‘We’re not building a nuclear reactor here. We’re not drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean with no plan in case something goes wrong. This is making music, this is melodious air and people can hear what goes into it.’ – Gord Downie

‘Coffee is pretty big in my life. It shows up in my lyrics a bunch, the same way the ocean does. It’s a constant force.’ – Chris Thile

‘Maine is the best place in the country to live and to raise our family. And it’s because of our people and our approach to life. No fuss – no frills – just the stuff that really counts. The beauty around us. Our connection to our mountains and lakes and ocean and farmland.’ – Sara Gideon

‘I just cannot fathom the criteria and the eligibility for awards as there is an ocean of difference between the state and national awards.’ – Padmapriya Janakiraman

‘I believe that climate change is real, is driven mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme weather events, hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and ocean acidification.’ – Jeff Van Drew

‘I don’t get to go to the beach often, so when I’m in Miami I usually spent the majority of my time by the ocean.’ – Brandi Cyrus

‘I had never seen an ocean before I came to Mumbai, something that now we take for granted. But the first time I stood in front of the ocean, it affected me for a week. I had never seen something as enormous. It consumed me completely.’ – Anubhav Sinha

‘I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I had an aunt who would go on holiday and send me postcards of palm trees and I would pin them to the wall, so I’ve gone from that fantasy to reality.’ – Udo Kier

‘A healthy ocean is not a luxury item. It is a necessity for survival. And taking care of the ocean means taking care of ourselves.’ – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

‘Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.’ – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

‘The ocean is so powerful and so healing at the same time. It’s kind of like a sanctuary. And the culture of the people in surfing, I love that. It’s such a community. It’s just got this, like, chill way about it. When you’re in the water, it’s very inclusive.’ – Tobin Heath

‘We have our own ocean, we’ve got a great bike trail – I love riding all the way to the turnaround at Hollywood Beach.’ – Joe Maddon

‘I feel the most confident when I’m by the ocean with the salt in my hair and zero makeup on.’ – Denise Bidot

‘Italy is one of the nicest countries in Europe and has everything you could wish for. You’ve got the ocean, the mountains, the lakes, great food and a fantastic lifestyle. I’m also a big fan of the mentality of the Italian people.’ – Stephan Lichtsteiner

‘The biggest misconception is that swimming is something you do on holiday, in the pool or in the ocean.’ – Gethin Jones

‘I always said that if I moved to California I’d live by the ocean.’ – Bob Baffert

‘Paul is synonymous with the ocean.’ – Cody Walker

‘Paul is with me all of the time. I really do feel that, I particularly feel that every time I go to the ocean, I surf, or I spearfish.’ – Cody Walker

‘If you have the ocean and you have your board, nothing matters.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘It didn’t matter if we didn’t have new bikes and skateboards and a nice car, and a lot of food in the fridge. We were in the ocean just enjoying life to the fullest.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘In Nazare, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘I went to Alaska a while back and surfed the waves generated from a glacier calving and ever since then, I’ve never been afraid in the ocean.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘The ocean is my church and my playground, and it’s where I love to be. It’s where I belong.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘Nazare is crazy. When you’re out in the ocean, and you’re a little bit past the wave, outside, it doesn’t really look that big. And then, once you get towed into this thing, it is like coming down a mountain, like going over a cliff.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘To be honest, as an average American, one who got his education in the ocean, I didn’t know where Portugal was.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘I really wanted to have a name that was double-barreled. I think at the time I was listening to a lot of Odd Future – like Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean – and I wanted my name to have a ring to it.’ – Arlo Parks

‘Almost everyone I spoke with in Maine who’s involved with the Arctic told me that Mainers have more in common with people from Iceland and Norway than they do with people from New York or California – they all live in relatively small communities with fairly extreme weather, and mainly depend on the ocean and other natural resources.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Ocean plastic in particular has captured the public imagination, and seems to be a jumping-off point for several companies developing plastic alternatives, both in source material and in the pollution they are trying to prevent.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Machine learning and artificial intelligence applications are proving to be especially useful in the ocean, where there is both so much data – big surfaces, deep depths – and not enough data – it is too expensive and not necessarily useful to collect samples of any kind from all over.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Knowing how much carbon dioxide the ocean is storing is crucial to modeling future climate changes, and given the prevalence of these creatures around the world and how much water they can filter, it is likely a significant amount.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling or exploration, which can disorient the animals and send them in the wrong direction, possibly toward beaches where they get stuck instead of into the deeper ocean.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Over the vast plains of the open ocean, where wave lines may be the only markers, seabirds, including albatrosses, manage to find food.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Environmentalists, members of the Obama administration and government officials in several states see significant potential for offshore wind energy, given that winds over the ocean usually blow stronger and more steadily than those on land.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘In the past, offshore wind farms have faced significant opposition in the United States for a few reasons: high costs, complicated rules about who gets to build on the seafloor and what they build, and complaints from people who do not want their ocean view obstructed.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres – big currents that converge in the middle of the ocean – but scientists estimate that only about 1 percent of plastic pollution is in these gyres and other surface waters in the open ocean.’ – Tatiana Schlossberg

‘Almost all of the Marshall Islands’ 72,000 residents live within seven feet of sea level. If the climate continues to change at its current pace, ocean acidification could destroy its resources and rising oceans could flood large parts of the islands.’ – Brian Deese

‘From drought-parched Brazil to the increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, from the rising seas along the Florida coast to the punishing heat waves hitting South Asia, in communities large and small, rich and poor, urban and remote, we can see the irrefutable evidence of what science has long told us was coming.’ – Brian Deese

‘The Everglades are flat, and they border a rising ocean. As the sea levels rise, the shorelines erode, and that salty water travels inland, threatening the aquifers supplying fresh drinking water to Floridians.’ – Brian Deese

‘I can remember stepping out of the car with my skates already tied, smelling the ocean breeze.’ – Eddy Alvarez

‘I love the ocean and I’m passionate about conservation and the environment.’ – Ellie Simmonds

‘We’d get right up and go straight to the beach for practice. Afterward, we’d leave on our wringing, dirty clothes and jump in the ocean. Then we’d leave them drying on the beach. That was our laundry break. Then, we’d play all afternoon.’ – Karch Kiraly

‘I have discovered France’s best-kept secret. Reunion is an island of some 970 square miles situated in the Indian Ocean south-west of Mauritius and east of Madagascar.’ – Carol Drinkwater

‘The pollution that flows from the Tijuana River Valley into the Pacific Ocean threatens San Diego’s environment.’ – Kevin Faulconer

‘There are two things I love about Temescal. One is the sense of space that you get when you get to the top. You can see for ages. You can see the ocean spread out before you, but you also feel like you’re in the mountains. And second is the smell of it, which I love most when I’ve been traveling a long time.’ – Alison Sudol

‘The lead singer of Ocean Colour Scene told me I looked like David Beckham when I interviewed him for MTV. I had short hair, was early in my career and still trying to find my confidence. Being a Man United fan, I should have taken it as a compliment; but it was meant unkindly.’ – Edith Bowman

‘A perfect holiday for me is somewhere warm with a beach because I love swimming in the ocean, while my husband and daughter prefer splashing around in a pool. Great produce is also essential, somewhere offering good, simple food. It doesn’t have to be gastronomic.’ – Monica Galetti

‘When you’re young, you believe in the most basic things. You believe that there are good people around you. And you don’t just take things for granted, like the ocean or the sky, or even being able to dream, to have a vision, to have ambition. As you grow up, all that gets knocked out of you.’ – Jim Kerr

‘We would have loved to have stayed in the U.K. but we’re creatures of California and we missed the ocean and most of all the sun.’ – Ron Mael

‘We had a miniature ocean liner made out of papier-mache, and I’d burst out of it wearing a sailor suit to begin our show. People didn’t know what to make of us.’ – Russell Mael

‘Playing cards crosses borders without any language barriers. I have played card games with Cambodian villagers, in bars in Cuba, on dive boats in the Indian Ocean and on safari in South Africa.’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘San Diego’s beautiful, with great energy, and I’m more prone to getting the fresh foods that come from the ocean.’ – Jeremy Stephens

‘Definitely the ocean was my saviour. It saved me from a lot of destruction. Or I’d say self-destruction.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘Paddle boarding is like walking on water. Standing atop a board in the middle of the ocean, you see everything from sea life to the coastline and across the channel. Having that sweeping expanse in front of you, you just want to go exploring.’ – Laird Hamilton

‘In Porto it’s a tourist city. It’s close to the river, the ocean as well, there’s a lot of history.’ – Diogo Jota

‘My main dream collaboration, which I’m sure is impossible, is Frank Ocean, he’s like my favourite artist of all time. Him, Tyler, the Creator, Rex Orange County.’ – Ruel

‘The music business is like an ocean. It’s filled with sharks and if you jump in naively, you’re going to get bitten. What I decided to do is build my own ship with my own crew because I love sailing in this ocean.’ – Jack Savoretti

‘Growing up in Hawaii and spending every day in the ocean and outside surrounded by nature gave me a unique appreciation for the environment and how important it is for me.’ – Evan Mock