Alfred Noyes Quotes

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Alfred Noyes

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

  

  Edmund White
  • Reading
  • Distance
  • Say

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Different
  • Small
  • Sky

• I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.

  

  Adam Green
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Cool

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Sea

• The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Girl
  • Sea
  • River

• I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Birds
  • Realism
  • Unrealistic

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Moving
  • Sea
  • Happen

• I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Live
  • City

• I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Live
  • Die
  • Discovered

• Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Education

• Yankees are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Manners
  • Accents
  • Yankees

• There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Magic
  • Sea
  • Sky