Diving Quotes

• Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Leap Of Faith, Gravity, Plus

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• Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Sea, People

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

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• The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Nature, Travel, Angel

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• From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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• I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Sea, Awful

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.

  Dawn Fraser

  Beautiful, Sports, Opening Up

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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  Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests.

  Enric Sala

  Dream, Ice, Two

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• I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Inspirational, Basketball, Character

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• I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Crush, Girl, Dream

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned". www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Jobs, Sky, Motorcycle

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• Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Giving, Nice Guys Finish Last

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

  Brooke Burns

  Children, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Giving, Scuba

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• Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

  Freeman Dyson

  Brother, Successful, Technology

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.17, Universities Press

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

  Ewan McGregor

  Gliding, Scuba, Skiing

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• The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Basketball, Being Yourself, Way

  "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

  Tim Cahill

  Adventure, People, Movement

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• I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

  Max Irons

  Reading, Free Diving, Hiking

  "Face Time | Max Irons". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. February 2, 2012.

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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