Quotes About Being Stranded

#1. Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.

Alaric Hutchinson

#2. No one ever does anything but what he wants to do - 'enjoys' - within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.

Robert A. Heinlein

#3. Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Nina Simone

#4. Seeking rest is like seeking the gift rather than the Giver; you can't receive the gift without first finding the Giver.

Jenari Skye

#5. Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

K.P. Yohannan

#6. Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Fergus Henderson

#7. I dunno Lloyd, the French are assholes.

Harry Dunn

#8. I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

Brett Gelman

#9. She kissed her like she'd been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot.

Michelle Tea

#10. The sleeper dreamed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Richard Powers

#12. Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

James Norman Hall

#13. The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.

L.A. Reid

#14. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#15. Now it wasn't just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was, 'Nope, they're married, man'.

Lucy Lawless

#16. What good is it, being two stranded British fops in the heart of America, if we don't announce it on Halloween by wearing enormous fuzzy hats for the purpose of our humiliation?

Red Tash