Dip Quotes - Page 2

• ‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Forever, Touching

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beach, Ocean, Blessing

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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• There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later.

  George Orwell

  Attitude, Book, Mind

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Opportunity, Thinking, Challenges

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• Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.

  Peter Shaffer

  Pain, Unique, Looks

  Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• You ever dip your biscuit in your tea and it breaks. I swear now, you never get used to that.

  Peter Kay

  Tea, Biscuits, Break

  "Mum Wants A Bungalow". Stand-up comedy tour by Peter Kay, 2003.

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• The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

  Harlan Coben

  Beer, Peanut Butter, Hot

  Harlan Coben (2011). “Harlan Coben 3 Novel Collection”, p.836, Penguin

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• When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Morning, Heart, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.151, A&C Black

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• Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

  Frank Lampard

  Fighting, Challenges, Moments

  "Frank Lampard calls for next Chelsea manager to be given 'a good crack'" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Blow

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Quiet, Wave, Lows

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.292

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• Emotional roller coasters tend to emphasize the lows, tend to be more affected by the low, by the dip in an emotional roller coaster than when you are at the peak.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Emotional, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  "The Emotional Poll Roller Coaster". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• I was thinking I would miss the rain. I wonder if you can experience the rain in Heaven, if God will let you dip your wings down... But my biggest expectation now is just to live. I will not go gently into that goodnight.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Rain, Thinking, Wings

  "Farrah Fawcett Shockingly Shaves Head, Hollywood Gathers to Pray For a Miracle" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
  Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
  Careering o'er the lonesome main,
  No port shall know her keel again...
  Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
  The sailor finds there eternal night,
  'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
  And Ocean will the secret keep

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Ocean, Sleep, Night

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”

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• When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip.

  Wes Fesler

  Dream, Determination, Looks

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• When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

  Al Alvarez

  Suicide, Moving, Heart

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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• You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. "I got terrible arthuritis." "I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Jobs, Home, Writing

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• It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

  Nick Hornby

  Romance, Metaphor, Natural

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.52, Penguin

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• If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind.

  Deborah Feldman

  Fear, Years, Feet

  Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• People find it interesting to try to make me gay; I’m not gay. I went on vacation with two girlfriends of mine who, interestingly enough got cut out of the pictures. We found a nude beach, as far as I know, was a unisex beach…. We took off our clothes and jumped in the water. I’ve been trying to skinny dip since I was a teenager. I’m just grateful that the water was warm!

  Shemar Moore

  Beach, Girlfriend, Teenager

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• I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

  Iain Banks

  Cities, Scotland, Fans

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

  Richard Bode

  Fate, Risk, Sailing

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