"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

--

Source : "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

Loren Eiseley

#Beach Quotes #War Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.”
“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”
“If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.”
“Every now and then the stars align, Boy and girl meet by the great design, Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones? Everybody told me love was blind, Then I saw your face and you blew my mind, Finally you and me are the lucky ones, this time”
“One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to say things you want the audience to know - as, for example, if he is defending himself against somebody's attack, his words of defense seem Justified even though his words are actually expository words. Something appears to be happening, so the audience believes it is witnessing a scene (which it is), not listening to expository speeches. Humor is another way of getting exposition across.”
“Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.”
“While the White House has condemned anti-Muslim rhetoric as divisive, the administration is also worried such talk will hurt antiterrorism efforts.”
“The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.”

You may also like:

Annie Dillard
Author
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Joseph Wood Krutch
Writer
Lewis Thomas
Physician
Mari Sandoz
Novelist
Michel de Montaigne
Writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
William Cronon
Professor