Amor Towles Quotes

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.

Amor Towles

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• Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Ocean

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • Ocean

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Mature
  • Out
  • Plateau

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Ocean

• 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

• Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Thought
  • Ocean
  • Rare

• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Done

• Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Balance
  • Ocean
  • Changing

• To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Day
  • Mom
  • Ocean

• Every drop in the ocean counts.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Ocean
  • Environmental
  • Drop

• I never have celebrity crushes.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Never
  • Celebrity
  • Crushes

• Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Water
  • Deep

• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue...Shake one, and it awakens; then applyIts polished lips to your attentive ear,And it remembers its august abodes,And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ocean
  • August

• According to Eshin's 'Essentials of Salvation,' the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Ocean

• There are three fountains In the mountain of roses, There is a Caer of defence Under the ocean’s wave. Illusive greeter, What is the porter’s name?

  

  Taliesin
  • Ocean
  • Mountain

• Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Small

• The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Spiritual
  • Fire
  • Sea

• Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Work
  • Action

• I swear to God, if I get shot again, Indigo will strangle me.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • God
  • Shots
  • Swear To God

• We always have to show our character on the pitch, and I show my feelings.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Character

• Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Character
  • Culture

• When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Ocean