Underwater Quotes - Page 4

• I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

  Maria Thayer

  People, Water, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Oil, People, Giving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Taken

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

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• 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, Done, Movement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

  Robin Hobb

  Sea, Hull, Floating

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Ship of Destiny”, p.406, Spectra

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• 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, Ability

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• When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land, which was a painting called, Two Worlds. For some reason that particular painting gave people something to hold onto.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Thinking, Land, Two

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• In real life, when you have an emotional experience, it's never just because of the thing that's been said. There's the backstory. It's like [Ernest] Hemingway's iceberg theory - the current emotional moment is the tip of the iceberg and all of the past is the seven-eighths of the iceberg that's underwater.

  George Saunders

  Real, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

  William Manchester

  Rocks, Color, Pale

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• 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, Manhattan

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• I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

  Kevin Costner

  Sexy, Fashion, Ponytails

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• Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

  Lauren Oliver

  Swimming, Air, Water

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, September 29, 2011.

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• Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.

  Mike deGruy

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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• Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Thank God, Clumsiness

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.498, Macmillan

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• [The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.

  Bill McKibben

  Dying, President, Coral Reefs

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

  Moby

  Cities, People, Addiction

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Beach, Brother

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• 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, Come Up

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.307, Scholastic Inc.

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• Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hurricanes-and it's unfair that I can be an elephant?" Percy considered. "Okay. I guess you got a point. But the next time I say you're totally beast-" "Just shut up," Frank said. "Please." Percy cracked a smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Blow, Elephants, Next

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• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

  Enric Sala

  Hero, Kids, People

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach 4. Or, I'd be an underwater salvager. I've always been fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis. I love chemistry, also. That's why acting is so random for me!

  Kellan Lutz

  Air, Acting, Triangles

  Seventeen Inerview, www.seventeen.com. November 10, 2011.

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• Frank couldn't breathe underwater. But where was he? Percy turned in a full circle. Nothing. Then he glanced up. Hovering above him was a giant goldfish. Frank had turned -clothes, backpack, and all- into a koi the size of a teen-aged boy. "dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him: "I freaked. We were talking about goldfish, so it was on my mind. Sue me.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Talking, Sea

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• Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

  Mort Sahl

  Guy, Firsts, Usc

  Twitter post from Apr 07, 2011

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