Blue Ocean Quotes:

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Hope, Peace And Love, Drops In The Ocean

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Dream, Memories, Ocean, Ocean Currents, Ocean Sea

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

- Bryan Procter

source: Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

topic: Ocean, Blue, Sea, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

- Lord Byron

source: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

topic: Ocean, Dark, Blue, Dark Blue, Deep Ocean

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

- Carolyn Porco

topic: Powerful, Ocean, Other Worlds, Blue Ocean

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

- Oscar Levant

topic: Funny, Flower, Humorous, Schizophrenic, Bed Of Roses

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

- Lord Byron

topic: Men, Sailing, Earth, Ocean Sea, Oceans And Seas

Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Ocean, Heart, Sea, Scuba, Ocean Conservation

More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Beach, Book, Ocean, Blue Ocean

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition

- W. Chan Kim

source: W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne (2015). “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Competition, Trying, Way, Blue Ocean

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick”, p.184, Tyché

topic: Ocean, Dark, Blue, Dark Blue, Deep Ocean

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

- Lord Byron

topic: Beach, Ocean, Dark, Ocean Sea, Deep Blue Sea

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

- Carl Safina

topic: Ocean, Blue, Pockets, Blue Ocean

I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.23, Hamilton Books

topic: Hate, Ocean, Blue, Blue Ocean, Green Trees

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

- Baz Luhrmann

source: The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2007.

topic: Morning, Ocean, Italian, Eclectic Style, Sydney

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Music, Ocean, Blessed, Sinai, Ideal Life