Mermaid Quotes - Page 3

• Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up

  Francesca Lia Block

  Eye, Light, Blue

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• Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

  Aoife O'Donovan

  Overboard, Turns, Thrown

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• ...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.

  Tove Jansson

  Inspirational, Funny, Oatmeal

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• Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

  Gemma Ward

  Kind, Passages, Rite

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• It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fall, Pool, Elevators

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been given her ocean. One day, in its own time, the ocean will give her back.I thought of corpses and of skeletons with pearls for eyes. I thought of mermaids with tails that flicked when they moved, like my goldfishes' tails had flicked before my goldfish had stopped moving, to lie, belly up, like Lettie, on the top of the water. I said, 'Will she be the same?

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

  Elizabeth Crook

  Spring, Swimming, Eight

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

  Sofia Vergara

  Cousin, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Sofia Vergara talks sex and bikinis in Esquire: Who's the sexiest TV actress?", www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2012.

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• You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

  Gideon Defoe

  Running, Men, Air

  Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Rotten, Denmark, Cold

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Blood, Knives, Voice

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid: English & Bulgarian”, p.16, Hans Christian Andersen

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• The other day when we were reading The Little Mermaid again, at the part where it says that only human souls can go up to heaven and mermaids can't, you (Daria) said, 'See that's like Papa. He lives in heaven. With the angels'

  Ekaterina Gordeeva

  Reading, Angel, Heaven

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• As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

  Brian Selznick

  Dreamer, Clerks, Bankers

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic

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• There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.

  Cassandra Clare

  Laughter, Cat, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.

  Edward Kitsis

  Thinking, People, Hot

  Source: collider.com

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• And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Names, Swim, Sirens

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “The Calling: Number 2 in series”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

  Anne Hull

  Florida, Nineteen, Paradise

  "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

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• THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fall, Heart, Order

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  Rae Armantrout

  Fashion, Thinking, Legs

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• Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."

  Margaret Atwood

  Swimming, Pigs, Texas

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.

  Coolio

  Lying, Thinking, Judging

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• I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Sick, Dresses, Bling

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• Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

  Mario

  Men, Brave, Coward

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• I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Ocean, Long, Cartoon

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• In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

  Winona Ryder

  Advice, Teens, Retrospect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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