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  • Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra, -- Rick Wakeman
  • Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I? -- George Clooney
  • Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea. -- Jennifer Rush
  • In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men. -- Homer
  • For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung. -- Homer
  • Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there. -- Rick Wakeman
  • Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book." And I say, "Which one, for God's sake, I've done six now!" "Oceans of Sound". -- David Toop
  • I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing. -- Chris Squire
  • Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • I didn't enjoy 'Topographic Oceans' at all. It was a double album, and the truth is it was padded out, and I didn't like that. But I was a fan of Yes - still am - and as such, I'm entitled to say what I think. -- Rick Wakeman
  • There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places. -- William Finnegan
  • In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world. -- Ronald Reagan
  • We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy. -- Sigourney Weaver
  • The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. -- Frank Waters
  • Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans. -- Paul Watson
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -- Andre Gide
  • We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do. -- Sylvia Earle
  • God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him. -- Bethany Hamilton
  • If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. -- Robert Ballard
  • This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. -- Artur Davis
  • 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein. -- Barton Seaver
  • People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen. -- Paul Watson
  • New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. -- Bill Dedman
  • I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. -- Michael E. Mann
  • There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living. -- Elmore Leonard
  • It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff. -- Bootsy Collins
  • Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here. -- Jeff Goodell
  • 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
  • In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything. -- Alan Huffman
  • I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there. -- Karl Pilkington
  • Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him. -- Paul Watson
  • If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots. -- Cynthia Breazeal
  • I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
  • 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
  • Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. -- Jay Griffiths
  • We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us? -- Ban Ki-moon
  • We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. -- Maya Angelou
  • There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! -- Brandon Boyd
  • Words carry oceans on their small backs. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
  • Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. -- Walt Whitman
  • As the oceans go, so do we. -- David Doubilet
  • Come, my love, we have oceans to sail. -- Saul Williams
  • I love rains which carry desires to oceans. -- Etel Adnan
  • The smallest oceans still make big big waves. -- Eddie Vedder
  • Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep. -- Sally-Ann Roberts
  • There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans -- John Steinbeck
  • We only have ten years to save the oceans -- Ted Danson
  • The future of nutrition is found in the oceans -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing. -- Jane Alison
  • At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas. -- Toba Beta
  • Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. -- Peter Benchley
  • The oceans are the last free place on the planet. -- Paul Watson
  • I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans. -- Bob Dylan
  • Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. -- Khaled Hosseini
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  • The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Instead of decaying in a safe harbour, sail to the unsafe oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. -- William J. Clinton
  • Looking aroundthere is nothing but illusionEverything is drownedin the oceans of illusion -- Rixa White
  • All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. -- Charles Stross
  • Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you. -- Tony Robbins
  • Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity. -- Euginia Herlihy
  • The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years -- Kerry Emanuel
  • Even in the depths of the darkest oceans, some light always pierces through. -- Myself
  • Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. -- Joseph J. Romm
  • ...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart. -- Greg Iles
  • Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade. -- Henry J. Heinz
  • What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans? -- Robert E. Howard
  • Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. -- Gautama Buddha
  • When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free. -- Garth Brooks
  • When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man -- e. e. cummings
  • There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools. -- Jane Alison
  • The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. -- James Dwight Dana
  • If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore. -- Winston Churchill
  • We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
  • We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans. -- John F. Lehman, Jr.
  • WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE. -- Paul Watson
  • The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it. -- John F. Kerry
  • The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
  • I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness -- Henry de Montherlant
  • We have to immediately stop using the oceans as a dumping ground for our urban and industrial waste. -- Serge Dedina
  • If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. -- Peter Benchley
  • We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have. -- Aaron Peirsol
  • We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist. -- Jean-Michel Cousteau
  • Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. -- John F. Kennedy
  • We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body. -- Nhat Hanh
  • A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Fears and doubts are oceans that barely fail to capsize all dreams that dare to sail in them. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. -- Mahmud Shabistari
  • The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. -- Michael Dolan
  • ...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal... -- Barack Obama
  • There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. -- Carl Sagan
  • The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it. -- Sylvia Earle
  • Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. -- Sylvia Earle
  • No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans. -- Will Rogers
  • Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. -- Gaylord Nelson
  • Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries. -- Daniel Pauly
  • To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me -- Isaac Newton
  • It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. -- Henry Miller
  • No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death. -- Richard Matheson
  • Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space. -- Bryant McGill
  • Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep. -- John Steinbeck
  • A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries. -- Scott Peters
  • We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires. -- Barry White
  • Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears. -- Gregory David Roberts
  • Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart. -- Karen Quan
  • Like memories in cold decay, Transmissions echoing away, Far from the world of you and I Where oceans bleed into the sky.. -- Linkin Park
  • Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine. -- Anne Sexton
  • I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed? -- Dennis Prager
  • Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change. -- Anne Sexton
  • The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. -- Gail Collins
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