"In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea."

-- William Beebe

#Ocean Quotes #Silly Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.”
“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.”
“When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.”
“I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.”
“When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.”
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
“I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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