Surtsey Quotes & Sayings

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. — Harvey Cushing

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong. — Larry Hite

How do you live again, knowing what waits for you in the end? — Amie Kaufman

My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle. — Assata Shakur

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images. — Johnny Depp

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex." — Josh Radnor

What's most troubling is the open water swim. It's windy, the waves are getting in your face and the water is a bit dirty. And there's silly things like you can't touch the bottom if you swallow a mouthful of water. — Greg James

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan. — Dashiell Hammett

Birds arrived. Gulls landed within weeks of the island's emergence, depositing the guano that built a richer soil. Fulmars and guillemots were the first to nest. Snow buntings and graylag geese came, almost ninety bird species in all, and twenty-one species of butterfly and moth. The first bush - a willow - came fifteen years after creation, and five years after the willows, seals were breeding on the young island. The descriptions make Surtsey sound like an orchestra, one instrument after another joining until there was the symphony that is an ecosystem. — Rebecca Solnit

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed. — Fred Durst