Underwater Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.

  Mick Ebeling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

  Sam Vaknin

  Knives, Office, Bully

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• The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed as if the purest kind of song had lifted you into the air.  By this quickness of language finding lyric speech, Mesa’s poems remind us of art’s joyous and ecstatic effects.

  Michael Collier

  Running, Song, Art

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• We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?

  Billy Nungesser

  Feet, Over You, Faces

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• 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, Would Be

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• The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

  John Mortimer

  Rocks, Law, Safety

  'Clinging to the Wreckage' (1982) ch. 7

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• I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

  Pamela Anderson

  Character, Son, Beverly Hills

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• How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

  Jodi Picoult

  Rain, Home, Hair

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• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Cute, Son

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1196, Penguin UK

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• Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Numbness, Next Day

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.65, Anchor

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