Deep Sea Creatures in Popular Culture
The BBC's Blue Planet has featured deep sea creatures, highlighting their peculiar attributes.
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Famous quotes containing the words deep, sea, creatures, popular and/or culture:
“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”
—John Major (b. 1943)
“Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)
“Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)