Top 100 Quotes About In The Water
#1. I could imagine that boats sailing in harbors will only use electric engines. And then once they are out in the water they will use diesel.
Henrik Fisker
#2. He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.
Michael Finkel
#3. Even the suggestion of swimming be stirring. Watch a swimmer pass a building with a pool: the whiff of chlorine produces a wistful smile. Sit with swimmers when a TV commercial shows someone in the water: they actually stop and watch.
Lynn Sherr
#4. Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
Estella Warren
#5. I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.
Mariella Frostrup
#6. If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.
Bruce Lee
#7. It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.
Margot Robbie
#8. Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.
Adalbert Stifter
#9. I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.
Pablo Neruda
#10. When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
Robert Jordan
#11. - What's in the water?
- Flowers and the part of the moon that isn't in the sky tonight.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.
Amanda Beard
#13. A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
Walter De La Mare
#14. Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
Markus Zusak
#15. She dances in the water. Perhaps that was as good as life got, after all.
Nick Harkaway
#16. Normally, people who are frustrated out in the water are frustrated on land. They brought their frustration with them. If you go to a beach where there are a hundred guys out, and you paddle out looking to ride waves alone, you're setting yourself up.
Laird Hamilton
#17. extreme divers are exacting and disciplined when they are in the water. They share the paranoiac's conviction that the worst will always try to happen, at the worst possible time.
Phillip Finch
#18. We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.
Johnny Weissmuller
#19. In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
Max Heindel
#20. Music is everywhere," Maude said softly. "It is in the water, in the wind's hum, in the bird's cry, in the boat's horn. Rhythm surrounds us. That is one of life's greatest gifts.
Anna Adams
#21. As its silent track in the water disappeared, the prayer that had broken up out of his heart for a merciful consideration of all his poor blindnesses and errors, ended in the words, "I am the resurrection and the life.
Charles Dickens
#22. I grew up around the pool with my sisters. Both of my sisters swam. I was always there. So I thought, why not? My mom put us in the water for water safety, so we were comfortable in the water in case anything ever happened. I learned that way, and started liking it more and more.
Michael Phelps
#23. And I'm falling in love with you," he whispers. "But I would throw you in the water and watch crocodiles tear you to bits, if I thought that doing so would accomplish my goals. Do. Not. Trust. Anyone. Especially me.
Bethany Griffin
#24. You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
Rich Galen
#25. On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk and butter and so on flouated in a circle in the mild whirlpool, like horse on a merry-go-round, in the water that smelled of the mint that grew close by.
Eudora Welty
#26. the moment a politician removes his shirt, his policies are dead in the water. All he will say is, "Look, my dear fellow countrymen, I have made the most extraordinary discovery: my policies look better without a shirt on.
Timur Vermes
#27. I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.
Francis Ford Coppola
#28. The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.
Malcolm Turnbull
#29. She tops up the silver pot with the hot water, steeping every sixpence's worth of tannin out of those tea leaves floating in the water like bloated ants. Do ants bloat? She has to say she has never seen a bloated ant. The injustice of it.
Mark O'Flynn
#30. In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#31. I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.
Elvis Presley
#32. For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.
Bill Walsh
#33. If this place were closer to Terra there'd be empty beer cans and plastic plates strewn around. The trees would be gone. There'd be old jet motors in the water. The beaches would stink to high heaven. Terran Development would have a couple of million little plastic houses set up everywhere.
Philip K. Dick
#34. I huffed out a deep breath. "It's something huge, isn't it?" Beezle nodded. "Yup."
There was a sound of several limbs splashing in the water. "Is it all squishy and tentacly?"
"Yup."
"I hate my life," I said, and as I turned I conjured a ball of nightfire and threw it.
Christina Henry
#35. I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.
Ryan Kwanten
#36. So what's your story?" Ryan asks.
Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?"
"Yeah. Everybody has at least one.
David Levithan
#37. Her smiles were blood in the water, his demise the closely lurking shark.
Alessandra Torre
#38. I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.
Amanda Beard
#39. Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. I could see no other lifeboats.
Yann Martel
#40. I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
John Sayles
#41. My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.
Russell Tovey
#42. I don't know what's in the water but chivalrous men seem to be landing here along with the weird lights in the sky and nine coloured rainbows. They said the end of the world was close, I just didn't expect men with manners to be part of the equation
Poppet
#43. The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.
Lou Berney
#44. I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.
Carlos Pena Jr.
#45. You never chased a sentient into his own environment unless you absolutely had to and you had sufficient forces to handle ten times the force you could see. Break that rule at your peril, as the poor screaming bastard in the water was now learning.
Evan Currie
#46. An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An ethicist had an obligation to drown.
Howard Jacobson
#47. Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.
Joyce Meyer
#49. A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.
John Berridge
#50. It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.
Alice McDermott
#51. When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?
Anthony Liccione
#52. I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.
Alana Blanchard
#53. The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!
Erwin Rommel
#54. The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
D.T. Suzuki
#56. You think it's something in the water or is she just touched?" "She's just touched,
Kristen Ashley
#57. Dolphins in the water. He recalled that the dolphins usually gathered there when
Amitav Ghosh
#58. When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#59. I think the evil is in the food, in the noise, in the crowding, in the stress, in the water, in the air.
Edward Abbey
#60. If I get in the water in this outfit, the cloth will turn completely transparent."
"I know, and I'm looking forward to it more than you can imagine.
C.L. Wilson
#61. I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.
Stephanie Rice
#62. I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.
Brian Skerry
#63. There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark
#64. The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.
Aesop
#65. We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.
Nicole Christie
#66. If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.
Kabir
#67. Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.
Jon Foreman
#68. The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I'm in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.
Texas Battle
#69. Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat ... I just feel really happy in the water.
David Walliams
#70. The man in the water saw the eye of the man on the bridge gazing into his own through the sights of the rifle. He observed that it was a gray eye and remembered having read that gray eyes were keenest, and that all famous markmen had them. Nevertheless,
Ambrose Bierce
#71. My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
Alan W. Watts
#72. Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down
Shel Silverstein
#73. He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women.
Ilona Andrews
#74. When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that prevents injuries.
Summer Glau
#75. I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.
Louie Giglio
#76. Late that night we were both still thinking about the events as they unfolded. He suggested a drive back to the water to bring some closure. As we stood in the water I felt so thankful to have been with a friend capable of hearing and expressing emotion.
Paula Heller Garland
#77. Oh, goody," Chas whispered. "I hate going to the doctor. I'd rather be back underground in the water playing Ophelia.
Lia Habel
#78. You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.
Louis L'Amour
#79. I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.
Jack Johnson
#80. The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.
Matsuo Basho
#81. Lili lili birdbath
sitting on a dirtpath
minnow sat on the rim and drank
slipped and in the water she sank
Khaled Hosseini
#82. I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
Sylvia Earle
#83. And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
Conor Oberst
#84. I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.
Michael Phelps
#85. little white house near the foot of the lighthouse with a little path between. The two buildings stood on a rocky point of land, almost in the water.
Gertrude Chandler Warner
#86. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.
Gloria Furman
#87. The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water ... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water ...
Ray Bradbury
#88. Later, a passenger reported seeing a woman giving birth in the water. The idea that this might have been his mother would haunt the boy for the rest of his life.
Erik Larson
#89. Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
Lyall Watson
#90. He and my daughter were foolish children that had no idea what love was. They were selfish, bathing in their love and ignoring the sharks in the water.
Scott T. Goudsward
#91. The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.
Keith Johnstone
#92. Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!
Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly!
Jasmine Jean
#93. Down in the water, Octavian yelled, "Get me out of here! I'll kill you!"
"Tempting," Percy called down.
Rick Riordan
#94. Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes.
Ivan Turgenev
#95. When we feel the poetic thrill, is it not that we find sweep in the concise and depth in the clear, as we might find all the lights of the sea in the water of a jewel? And what is a philosophic thought but such an epitome?
George Santayana
#97. The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.
Ernest Hemingway,
#98. Trying to drown me woman?
'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?'
'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.
Maya Banks
#99. Jewelry of the clouds on the horizon;
Seven circles are intertwined.
A voice follows you without words;
Soft footsteps, in the water of transience.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#100. Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.
Jesse Ventura
