Mermaid Quotes - Page 2

• Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Night, Special, Shooting

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• My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

  Ariel Winter

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  "Modern Family's Ariel Winter Turns Mermaid for Jake and the Never Land Pirates". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

  Brian Selznick

  Girl, Ocean, Rising

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.74, Scholastic

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• I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Struggle, Heart, Leave Me Alone

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• I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

  Esther Williams

  Feet, Air, Gold

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• Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

  Esther Williams

  Firsts

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• Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Swim, Earth, Soil

  Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press

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• She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

  Marisha Pessl

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sea, Water, Said

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• The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

  Charlie Munger

  Want, Way, Affluence

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• Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

  T. S. Eliot

  Beach, Thinking, Hair

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

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• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

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• Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Children

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Animal, Half, Body

  Interview with Anohni, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 2, 2016.

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• I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.

  Katrina Law

  Bad Ass, Names, Wonder Woman

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• The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

  Liz Kessler

  Secret, Different, Tails

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• I remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women. Most of the time it was mermaids and a Minotaur: half human, half animal. I used to be obsessed with Minotaurs when I was a child.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Children, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.

  Ella Henderson

  Thinking, Swim, Pineapples

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• I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I'm a little bit more of a unicorn, because I'm like a little bit more horsey.

  Blake Lively

  Thinking, Littles, Unicorn

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I remember when I was doing Mermaids [1990], I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.

  Winona Ryder

  Giving, Parent, Doing Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

  John Green

  Twilight, Writing, People

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• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

  Ian Holloway

  League, Making Love, Half

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• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Block, Sleep, Light

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

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• In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Morbid, Abandoned

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