Underwater famous quotes

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
-- Amy Hempel

#Mean #Underwater #Sinking

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.
-- Ben Marcus

#Love #Underwater #Dry

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
-- Cameron Bright

#Sweet #Underwater #Would Be

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
-- Christina Romer

#Writing #Thinking #Underwater

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
-- David Quammen

#Underwater #Yearning #Creatures

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
-- David R. Ellis

#Mean #Underwater #Stuff

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.
-- Esther Williams

#Swimming #Underwater #Done

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.
-- Gary L. Francione

#Self #Bird #Underwater

Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you,
-- Graham Hawkes

#Air #Flying #Underwater

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
-- Hayao Miyazaki

#Desire #Population #Underwater

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Thinking #Voice #Underwater

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
-- Jerry Spinelli

#Underwater #Floating #Pieces

I can't even open my eyes underwater.
-- Jessica Chastain

#Eye #Underwater

When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.
-- Jessy Schram

#Phones #Two #Underwater

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid
-- John Cornyn

#Home #Underwater #Unemployment

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.
-- Karen White

#Thinking #Swim #Underwater

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.
-- Katie Hoff

#Perfect #Risk #Underwater

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.
-- Robert Ballard

#Treasure #Underwater #Hunters

And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever
-- Suzanne Collins

#Long #Next #Underwater

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
-- Walter Darby Bannard

#Art #Swimming #Underwater

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.
-- William H. Calvin

#People #Underwater #Fever

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.
-- Zach Anner

#Underwater #Atlantis