Storm Surge Barrier

Famous quotes containing the words storm, surge and/or barrier:

“Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!
The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We have had enough of action, and of motion we,
Rolled to starboard, rolled to larboard, when the surge was seething
free,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.”
—Bill Bryson (b. 1951)