To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've KNOWN a LONG TIME. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I SWIM in the sea, I TALK to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

The Egyptians could RUN to Egypt, the Syrians into SYRIA. The only PLACE we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we MIGHT as well fight.

RISING sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and DEVASTATING NATURAL disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and DISASTER RELIEF.

At SEA a FELLOW comes out. Salt WATER is LIKE WINE, in that respect.

A woman KNOWS the face of the MAN she LOVES as a SAILOR knows the OPEN sea.

A lot of PEOPLE attack the SEA, I MAKE love to it.

There is NOTHING so desperately monotonous as the SEA, and I no LONGER WONDER at the cruelty of pirates.

Sea WATER is clear and you can PUT the CAMERA in sea water and you can SEE STUFF, whereas freshwater is often zero visibility.

A lot of fish that live in the SEA, they are your NORMAL, NICE, PRETTY, silvery, shiny fish.

I REMEMBER being captivated by Jules Verne's 'Twenty THOUSAND Leagues Under the SEA' when I READ it as a KID.

DEMOCRACY is not what we don't want. Democracy is what we do want. It is a SET of affirmative VALUES by which we can move forward. If we cannot INSERT our values into our vote, and our vote is simply against what we fear most, then we are a SHIP lost at sea.

The scripture is filled with EXAMPLES of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus BACK. Not the pale-faced altar BOY, but the man that MADE a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly CAST out demons and calmed the raging sea.

In my 20s and EARLY 30s, I was very much a MAN lost at sea, with very little direction in LIFE, and painfully immature.

I turned my hand to costume design a few YEARS ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with RICHARD Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very DIFFERENT discipline to being a fashion DESIGNER, though - you have to rein in your own VISION and work to a tight brief.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the RIGHT direction to go.