Top 100 Quotes About Sink
#1. One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#3. Why did the undertaker sink into a deep depression?
Because he was already one foot in the grave
Stephan Attia
#4. If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
Agnes Repplier
#5. Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.
Anthony Liccione
#6. I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
Lisa Tuttle
#7. I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.
Virginia Woolf
#8. 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.
Alton Brown
#9. Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
George Herbert
#10. I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
Erma Bombeck
#11. Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.
Lisa Graff
#12. I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
Haruki Murakami
#13. We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
Paul Watson
#14. Mr. Oamaru has taught me that loss isn't just limited to the present; it can happen in any direction. Even what's done and vanished can be taken from you. Other, earlier memories that we made of my father sink and revert to water
Karen Russell
#15. Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.
Charles Stross
#17. At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.
Tom Robbins
#18. To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.
Jack Nicklaus
#19. I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?
Rachel Hayes
#20. Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
William Shakespeare
#21. Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.
Seamus Heaney
#22. Sometimes,indeed, the Lord purposely leaves his children, withdraws the divine inflowings of his grace, and permits them to begin to sink, in order that they may understand that faith is not their own work.
(Sermon, "Mr. fearing comforted")
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.
Vilfredo Pareto
#24. To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.
Neal Shusterman
#25. If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.
Julia Roberts
#26. If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.
Woody Allen
#27. A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in. No, it was the kind of safe where you sink down in your bed at the end of the day and know you can go to sleep and everything is going to be the same tomorrow.
Lilith Saintcrow
#29. Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.
Lisa Harris
#30. We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies.
John O'Donohue
#31. Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."
John Adams
#32. I filled the sink with soapy water and washed the dirty pots. And with each pot and pan, and spoon I put away,I also put away a thought I couldn't bear until my kitchen and my mind returned to a state of mutual organisation.
Nicole Krauss
#33. We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.
Regina Brett
#34. The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
Frank Lowy
#35. If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.
Rory McIlroy
#36. Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#37. More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.
Helen Greaves
#38. When I masturbate I fantasize about having my own apartment. I used to think about Cindy Crawford now I think about leaving a dish in the sink overnight.
Greg Giraldo
#39. Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
Frank Herbert
#40. Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned
Simon Bolivar
#42. The time comes when our hearts sink utterly;
When we remember Deirdre and her tale,
And that her lips are dust.
James Kenneth Stephen
#43. I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
Charles De Gaulle
#44. Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#45. Life in our world is very sink or swim, and that's for the best. If you can't survive in the deep end, you should get out before you drown.
Seanan McGuire
#46. My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
Emanuel Celler
#47. You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.
Annie Proulx
#48. Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.
Genie Frisbee
#49. I'm looking forward to playing the meatier roles you get in your 30s. The early 20s can be a hard time for an actress - it's always bombshell or romantic lead. The good stuff you can really sink your teeth into comes later.
Jessica Marais
#50. Maybe it was the alcohol. Yeah. That's probably what it was. The booze must have mixed with the romance in the air and turned him soft. But then, if that's all it was, why did his stomach sink to the floor at her reaction? Did he really want to marry her? He looked
Natalie K. Martin
#51. It's a fine murdering day, (sang Bunch) And as balmy as May And the sleuths from the village are gone." A rattle of crockery being dumped in the sink drowned the next lines, but as the Rev. Julian Harmon left the house, he heard the final triumphant assertion: "And we'll all go a'murdering today!
Agatha Christie
#52. I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#53. When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
Isaac Asimov
#54. Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
Igor Sikorsky
#55. Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#56. Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
Plato
#57. Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Lady Gaga
#58. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" - MATTHEW 14:29
Sarah Young
#59. Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.
Today I did the same thing, but the view from my toes was the same from flat feet.
I'm a big girl now.
Audrey Regan
#60. He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
Jim Davis
#61. Lost?" I broke in. "Lost how? Lost like you dropped it down the sink, or lost like it walked out the door and ran off into the woods?
Julie Kagawa
#62. In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull.
Alex, come back.
There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.
Lauren Oliver
#63. He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes.
"You love me?"
"It's the tattoos," I shrugged.
A wide smile stretched across his face, making his
dimple sink into his cheek.
Jamie McGuire
#64. Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
Amy Carmichael
#65. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
Yasmin Mogahed
#66. Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
Heinrich Heine
#67. Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
George F. Kennan
#68. I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
Bob Dylan
#69. I was gazing underwater at the brightly colored landscape that had been hidden from view, forgetting to be afraid that my equipment might fail, that against all evidence I would sink to the bottom and die a watery death, even that I was afraid at all.
Jojo Moyes
#71. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)
Gabrielle Zevin
#72. [Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
Winston Churchill
#73. There were two important lessons I learned from Dad's 1964 campaign, though they didn't sink in until many years later: 1) Things always look darkest just before it goes completely black 2) Somewhere when God shuts a door, he shuts a window too. And then you're totally fucked.
Stephanie Miller
#74. Sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control
Margaret Way
#75. They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
Elizabeth I
#76. And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.
Anonymous
#77. The last time I checked, I wasn't the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped ... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#78. SINK OR SWIM ALERT
Folks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egos
Kamil Ali
Kamil Ali
#79. As marriage was woman's business, unmarried women, though doubtless unfortunate, must simply be considered as business failures: harsh, doubtless, but in tune with the sink-or-swim capitalist times.
Ruth Brandon
#80. I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
George Eliot
#81. Girls get under each other's skin. We get too close, too attached, too crazy, and then we can't let go. Our claws sink too deep. When we separate, we tear each other apart.
Leah Raeder
#83. There is a cleansing from winter darkness the moment we sink our fingers into spring's fresh earth.
Toni Sorenson
#84. We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.
Lee Strobel
#85. Roasted sweet potatoes are like illicit sex in the old Chinese saying, "Having it isn't as good as not having it." The smell is better than the taste. When you smell it, you feel you must have one, but once you actually sink your teeth into it, you find it's not really anything special.
Qian Zhongshu
#86. The sun will sink lower soon enough, turning the fields into open black space, ushering another day out, another day in
one after the next.
Allison Winn Scotch
#87. Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you're playing someone who's sort of seedy, there's less limitation, there's so much space you can travel. There's room to move in.
Matt Dillon
#88. Her real passion in life was the perfection of a filing system beside which all other filing systems should sink into oblivion. She dreamed of such a system at night.
Agatha Christie
#89. I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
Ann Voskamp
#90. You oughtn't to go in swimming when you're alone," Freddy said. "You might have drowned." "I suppose I might have, at that," said the cow. "But it's such fun when I think I'm going to float, and then I just sink.
Walter R. Brooks
#91. There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#92. It was necessary that spirituality sink to its lowest ebb that it should rise to the highest pinnacle in another direction.
Anonymous
#94. If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance.
Francis De Sales
#95. I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic will be gone. And everything will be peaceful and quiet.
Hayao Miyazaki
#96. I've got categories of jobs, and one of the categories is 'money jobs.' If one of those comes along and I have to make a living, even if I don't like the script that much, I'll do it and just try to stay above water, which I'm able to do most of the time. I try not to sink with the ship.
Dean Stockwell
#97. Jacob went to the sink and held his hands under the tap. He splashed cold water on his face and formed another ab-flashing maneuver that would bring every card-carrying queer to his knees.
Jordan Castillo Price
#98. I've skimmed through it a dozen times, the book glued to my side the past few days, like maybe the information will sink in through osmosis.
J.M. Darhower
#99. What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.
Samuel Beckett
#100. We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
Madeleine L'Engle
