North Sea Quotes:

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

- Robert Henri

source: Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Beach, Ocean, Thinking, Sea Breeze, Ocean Sea

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

- John Gardner

source: John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.116, Vintage

topic: Children, Sleep, Sea, North Sea

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

- William Randolph Hearst

topic: Oil, Sea, Faces, Rigs, North Sea

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

- Daniel Yergin

topic: Running, Sea, Lines, North Sea

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

- Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

source: "The Scourge Of Teleprompters" by Jack Valenti, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 1984.

topic: Fog, Sea, Islands, North Sea

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

- Patricia Moyes

topic: Sea, Hints, Far Away, Kent, Surrey

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

- Helen Cresswell

source: Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

topic: Garden, Sea, Weather, North Sea

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: War, Sea, History, Rendezvous, North Sea

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

- George W. Norris

topic: Country, Order, Sea, North Sea

It is in fact necessary to reduce CO2 emissions. There is no reason why we shouldn't spend our vacations on (the North Sea island of) Sylt instead of in the Seychelles, or drive more economical cars - for the sake of preserving increasingly scarce resources if nothing else. But that won't enable us to stop climate change. As long as China, India and the United States continue the way they have been, what we Germans do is more or less irrelevant.

- Hans von Storch

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Vacation, Islands, Sea, Scarce, Co2

The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

- Jonathan Raban

topic: Real, Sea, Rivers, North Sea, Norwich

Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system

- Andrew Simms

source: "Fund clean energy with oil tax" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2006.

topic: Oil, Sea, Pay, Oil And Gas, Green Energy

There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.

- Fatih Birol

topic: Running, Believe, Sea, Time Is Running Out, Oil Field

The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Sea, Kuwait, Oil, Caspian Sea, Central Asia

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

- Philip Reeve

source: Philip Reeve (2012). “Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex”, p.13, Scholastic UK

topic: Spring, Dark, Sea, City Of London, North Sea

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

topic: Couple, Eye, Sea, Closed Eyes, Raspberries

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

- Iain Duncan Smith

topic: Commitment, Oil, Government, Westminster, City Of London

Imagine if for years your habit is to use the phone when you're having a massage on the bed, even one minute before going out to train? For 25 days I accepted this, because my first priority was to work on the field. However, I've said that from now if someone comes inside with a mobile phone, even in their bag, I'll throw it in the North Sea. They're banned.

- Paolo Di Canio

source: "Ketchup off menu for Di Canio's Sunderland". www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2013.

topic: Years, Sea, Phones, North Sea