"If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again."

-- Sylvia Earle

#Ocean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Feet Quotes

“I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.”
“At least I can say that I'm honest.”
“The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.”
“I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.”
“I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount the self that said, "I want to allow natural death in such a situation."”
“I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.”
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
“Do you laugh in the right places? Then, youâ€™ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something thatâ€™s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if itâ€™s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.”

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