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Fame has replaced the sea as the element of choice for adventure.


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Roschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
ALAN MOORE Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Bur...
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN strength to unity unity through faith
ALAN MOORE Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
GERARD WAY And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...
ALAN MOORE Every leaf on every tree
And every drop of water in the sea
Every grain of weathered sand JANN ARDEN Alan does it for the right reasons. It's not for the money and fame. It's about conquering the sport...
CORBY FISHER The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
HIROSHI HATANAKA If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; / Even there shall ...
BIBLE Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
THOMAS HOOD Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble ...
JOHN VINOCUR And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.
JIM HOUDEK When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even ...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
ADRIANNE PALICKI The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social
WILLIAM BOLITHO From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO TSE-TUNG A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
LEWIS CARROLL Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a s...
JOHN MASEFIELD Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moo...
MARTIN BUXBAUM The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH [The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP Voice of the Sea Dogs.
JERRY GREEN I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA It was fairly rough, the sea, but the worst part was the rain. There was quite heavy rain, although ...
DOUGLAS RICE Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and a...
BIBLE The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs ...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN It is the county that has created the situation. They permitted the sea walls and allowed all this t...
GARY APPELSON People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. FRANK BAUM I fell to the floor, and then I slid into the sea.
JAIKUMAR GEORGE They know how dangerous the sea is. They know about the deaths of other immigrants, and despite that...
LUIS CARRION From what we see, the sea nettles seem to be concentrated in the northern end of Barnegat Bay.
MARC LABELLA The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in ...
JUAN COLE It plunged into the sea at an angle of 60 degrees.
VIKTOR BELTSOV The script is the bible. If you imagine setting off on an adventure in a canoe, the script is the st...
PAUL WILLIAMS The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its...
KATE CHOPIN People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' ...
DAVE GIBBONS Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea.

I alwa...
KATHERINE MCINTYRE The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that f...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. ...
EMILY DICKINSON Interviewing has replaced reporting as the high-profile position.
ANDREW TYNDALL Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They we...
BARRY HUMPHRIES Henry Moore was . . . the Number 1 choice whenever a public sculpture was needed. . . . It was thoug...
JOHN RUSSELL He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
POPE JOHN XXII There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and ...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS There are plenty of fish in the sea
AMERICAN PROVERB Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
RACHEL CARSON And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its w...
ROBERT TREAT PAINE This is your timeThis is your danceLive every momentLeave nothing to chanceSwim in the seaDrink of t...
MICHAEL W. SMITH Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
JACQUES COUSTEAU The Sea Pro range of boats are the perfect addition to our new boat portfolio. They are high quality...
IAN ROBERTS When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys.
ANDREW G. DEHEL for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find t...
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will st...
LED ZEPPELIN There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
KAHLIL GIBRAN And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
TRENT REZNOR A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned.
J.M. SYNGE The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather ...
EDWARD FORBES They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the ...
BIBLE Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
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Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
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ALAN MOORE Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to...
ALAN MOORE It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
ALAN MOORE If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.
ALAN MOORE When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could ...
ALAN MOORE Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.
ALAN MOORE Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
...
ALAN MOORE When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right...
ALAN MOORE It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...
ALAN MOORE No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
ALAN MOORE See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'...
ALAN MOORE Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in ...
ALAN MOORE Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE