Tides The Seven Quotes & Sayings

At low tide, much of the sea changes to land, and then more than seven hundred islands can be counted. People come here to hide, to find something they can't find on the mainland, to get religion through solitude. From June till September, nearly every day is perfect, with the 10,778-foot volcano of Mount Baker rising from the tumble of the Cascades to the west, blue herons and bald eagles crowding the skies, killer whales breaching offshore. The water is exceptionally clear, the result of a twice-daily shift-change in tide, when it sweeps north toward the Strait of Georgia, then back south toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In some places, the rip tides create white water like rapids on a foaming river. Being is bliss. But then the winters come and the tourists all go home and clouds hang on the horizon and unemployment doubles and the island dweller is left with whatever it is that led him to escape the rest of the world. — Timothy Egan

To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper. — Yakov Smirnoff

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. — Helene Cixous

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less. — Matt Gonzalez

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering. — Romany Malco

When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine. — Dave Mustaine

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something. — Junot Diaz

The masses of Negroes ... particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit ... — Margaret Sanger