Diving Board Quotes

#1. Many manage to improve on the first drafts of the lives they are given. But for that they need the courage to jump off a diving board fifty meters high, blindfolded, not knowing if it is water or asphalt that awaits them below.

Alexandre Vidal Porto

#2. Just because the pool's got a diving board, doesn't mean it's got a deep end.

Sophie McManus

#3. The whole time I hadn't slept with anyone at university had made it harder and harder to finally do it. Like spending too long on a very high diving board, until finally you have to exit ignominiously, the same way you climbed up.

Olivia Sudjic

#4. Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Jackie Collins

#5. I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

Gail Sheehy

#6. There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

Kristine K. Stevens

#7. If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

Ajahn Chah

#9. I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#10. Once you start doubting, just like you're supposed to doubt, you ask me if the science is true. You say no, we don't know what's true, we're trying to find out and everything is possibly wrong.

Richard Feynman

#11. The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

George Santayana

#12. Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I be? And all because I don't want to go to work. I'll work my head off to avoid work. Come, mind. This time you don't get away with it - back to the desk.

John Steinbeck

#13. There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.

Philip Schultz

#14. There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

Sachin Tendulkar

#15. There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

John Von Neumann