"If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better."

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Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

Abby Sunderland

#Eight Quotes #Water Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.”
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”
“Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick.”
“Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”

Source : "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.
“We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.”
“I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.”
“Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.”
“Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?”

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