Underwater Quotes

• Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

  Tom Robbins

  Reality, Tunes, Different

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.84, Bantam

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.

  Graham Hawkes

  Air, Flying, One Love

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• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  Cameron Bright

  Sweet, Would Be, Able

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• I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

  Cristina Garcia

  Sea, Silence, Wish

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• It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

  David R. Ellis

  Mean, Stuff, Blast

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

  Robert Ballard

  Hunters, Treasure, Explorers

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• I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

  John Green

  Impossible, Cry, Feels

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

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• It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Dream, Nature, Travel

  Stephen Harrigan (2015). “Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef”, p.153, University of Texas Press

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• What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

  David Doubilet

  Photography, Voice, Giving

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• Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Swimming, Blindfolds

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• It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

  Laura Moriarty

  Eye, Swimming, Years

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• Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Space, Diving

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• Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

  Amy Hempel

  Mean, Sinking, Stills

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I like underwater life.

  Hayao Miyazaki

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• 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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• But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

  Karen White

  Thinking, Swim, Sometimes

  Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.114, Penguin

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• I can't even open my eyes underwater.

  Jessica Chastain

  Eye, I Can

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• Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, Turtles, Able

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.7, Random House

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• My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible, but actually experiencing it was such a gulp of joy and I feel it every time I go under the ocean. I love doing it, to be able to feel weightless, to spin on one finger, to do somersaults, to be like a graceful ballerina - even with a huge tank on your back you can do the most extraordinary things.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Joy, Mind

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• I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Voice, Answers

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.161, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

  Leigh Newman

  Eight, Rocks, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

  David Quammen

  Yearning, Creatures

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.

  Lloyd Bridges

  Ocean, Kids, Hunting

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• I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen.

  Margot Robbie

  Tree, Feels, Comfortable

  "Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with ELLE, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

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