Quotes About Underwater

#1. When I have survived the worst, opening my eyes underwater, sniffing water into my sinuses and snorting it out,

Suzanne Collins

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

Laura Moriarty

#3. As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.

Rick Riordan

#4. Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.

Karen Quan

#5. Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter's fingers, himself still swaying underwater, cradled in the sea's mouth.

Ava Bloomfield

#6. When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

Enric Sala

#7. (...) I ducked once underwater and holding my breath until movement was an agony, blundered painfully ahead, under the surface, for as long as I could. The water was in a tumult about me.

H.G.Wells

#8. Clamp its jaws on the Black Hawk's landing gear and drag it underwater.

James Patterson

#9. I'd never actually talked to a deaf person before but I'd been swimming and gotten water stuck in my ears lots of times, felt that underwater silence as I shook my head and watched people's mouths moving without hearing the words, so I knew what it was like for her. I could empathize.

Paul Neilan

#10. I would be perfectly willing if a publisher came up to me and said, "I need a novel about underwater Nazi cheerleaders and it has to be 309 pages long and I need fourteen chapters and a prologue.

Michael McDowell

#11. Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained

Jeanette Winterson

#12. 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

#13. Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were bursting.

Jennifer Lane

#14. Being with him was like being alone underwater
everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Ben Marcus

#15. Lying perfectly still, they would gaze at each other in thick exhaustion and nothing would seem to divide them: they could float inside each other freely as fish drifting through windows of underwater castles.

Jennifer Egan

#16. When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.

Sylvia Earle

#17. Being stern was like being underwater-she could do it, but never for long, and how her whole boy burned to come up for breath!

Catherynne M Valente

#18. I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.

Brian Skerry

#19. We'd never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

Katherine McIntyre

#20. We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?

Billy Nungesser

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

David R. Ellis

#22. I don't know where I am, Evan."
"I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just ... everywhere."
"I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater."
"I need a gun."
"Evan? I need-

David Levithan

#23. I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

Pamela Anderson

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

Graham Hawkes

#25. There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.

Scott McCallum

#26. Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.

Darion D'Anjou

#27. I like underwater life.

Hayao Miyazaki

#28. The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Barbara Kingsolver

#29. When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

Jessy Schram

#30. Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

Walter Darby Bannard

#31. Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken underwater.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#32. The first vehicle was an unmanned two-ton, hundred-thousand-dollar steel-caged contraption named ANGUS (for Acoustically Navigated Geophysical Underwater System), which had powerful strobe lights, a collection of thermometers, and, most critically, high-definition cameras. Late

Simon Winchester

#33. The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

Tom Bissell

#34. To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#35. Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

Robin Hobb

#36. No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

Zach Anner

#37. Place the tip of a stick in a clear brook and you'll see it "bend" underwater because the speed of light is literally slower beneath the surface than it is in air.

David Blatner

#38. When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep
it feels like sinking deep underwater

Otsuichi

#39. I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.

Steve Irwin

#40. Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

Mort Sahl

#41. This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other.

Eoin Colfer

#42. But it's like swimming underwater, you know? At first you feel as though you could go along forever, seeing everything from this new perspective, but eventually you have to come up for air.

Barry Eisler

#43. But complaining that you have a bad memory for names or numbers is a bit like whining about your smartphone functioning poorly underwater.

Dean Buonomano

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

Stephen Harrigan

#45. Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.

Ali Shaw

#46. Meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl. ISBN 0-06-441014-5 - ISBN 0-06-029642-9 (lib.

Lemony Snicket

#47. When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The day quivered. The sky was as deep as the ocean. We breathed underwater.

Karen Foxlee

#48. It's amazing how much you're missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It's like breathing again after being underwater for far too long

Jenny Lawson

#49. Cecelia turned her gaze away from the girls and looked at the shimmer blue of their kidney shaped swimming pool, with its powerful underwater light, the perfect symbol of suburban bliss, except for that strange intermit sound like a baby choking that was coming from the pool filter.

Liane Moriarty

#50. Like a flame breaking the boundaries to survive underwater, we, too, are something beautiful. We are a substance of our own design. We're more than water. We're more than fire. We're a miracle, a living and breathing combination, with no formula to define us.

Renee Ericson

#51. I can't think of anything I regret. Everything I've done, I've enjoyed doing. I've had five husbands, four children. I've done it all, but mainly I've enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.

Eugenie Clark

#52. my house only felt like a home underwater, in floods; my father was an astronaut because to me stars or the distant flashing of satellites seemed closer than wherever he was; when

Neil Hilborn

#53. It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

Zac Efron

#54. Trying to write, or talk - or think - without invoking time is like trying to make pancakes underwater. Time

John Wray

#55. Now. It is only ever now. So do it, you coward. Breathe underwater at last.

Nina George

#56. Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.

Mike DeGruy

#57. Sometimes at night, when I was alone, or when I was at the pool, in the quiet stillness underwater, my mind would go to that place. To the hospital, to the people there. It was as if my heart could travel, over the miles, over the months that had passed, and I was back with her. Olivia

Cylin Busby

#58. As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

David Blaine

#59. U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.

Erik Larson

#60. And then, when he's been underwater so long I feel certain he's drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. "Don't do that," I say. "What? Come up or stay under?" he says. "Either. Neither. Whatever

Suzanne Collins

#61. I want to stay," he admitted. "I haven't felt this way in a long time. I feel like ... like I came up from being underwater, and I can finally breathe. I don't want to stop feeling that way. That's how I know I have to leave.

Sarah Cross

#62. Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.

Craig Thompson

#63. I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians ... To me, that's sexy!

Kevin Costner

#64. I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

Robert Ballard

#65. That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.

Mick Ebeling

#66. Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

Laird Hamilton

#67. Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

Tom Robbins

#68. I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like. And I'll say 'Dive in, man, and go see it. Swim around. You'll be okay.

Stana Katic

#69. luxury underwater resort, Hydropolis. Shaped like a giant jellyfish, the Hydropolis would consist of two hundred luxury suites submerged sixty-six metres under the sea, offering spectacular views of the ocean bed and passing mermaids! This one-of-a-kind

J.R. Roth

#70. The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.

Lisa Wingate

#71. Until he was six, John would bathe with his son in the spa, thinking it would purify his mind and soul and make him whole. He held him underwater as long as it took until life left his limbs and took him up again, hugging the boy tenderly.

J.A. Carter

#72. I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

Diane Ackerman

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#74. 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

#75. The half of her that is underwater would like to be
under a desk, the head of her that is underwater
would like to be fully immersed.

Patricia Lockwood

#76. And suddenly she resembled not so much a bland dish of pudding as the surface of a well-known, yet never explored lake, and he, standing on the banks, had just seen a movement underwater, an enigmatic shadow that disappeared so quickly he wasn't sure he hadn't imagined the whole thing.

Sherry Thomas

#77. I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Ernest Hemingway,

#78. People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool.

Elayne Boosler

#79. I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim ... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.

Eric Idle

#80. Brutha tried to put it out of his mind, which was like trying to empty a bucket underwater.

Terry Pratchett

#81. Was it really called dry humping, if they did it underwater? Probably not. Crying shame that they both had their jeans on, because this was definitely one of those adrenaline-fuelled moments of passion with a total loss of inhibition, where need and desire trumped all reason.

Suzanne Brockmann

#82. We're going to swim it."
I flipped forward a few pages. "Underwater."
Jenks blinked. "Rache, you gotta stop using that sugar substitute.Under the water? Do you know how cold it is?

Kim Harrison

#83. There is light underwater, even at night, but it is a far cry from the lights that we all know and love... the light by which the reaper reads his list.

Tom Robbins

#84. When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land, which was a painting called, Two Worlds. For some reason that particular painting gave people something to hold onto.

Robert Lyn Nelson

#85. Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell it?

Karen Joy Fowler

#86. It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

Iris Murdoch

#87. I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea's consoling silence.

Cristina Garcia

#88. No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

Esther Williams

#89. Jarah didn't know whether to believe him or not . . . I mean, flying ships . . . ? Tegan giggled. And ships that can go underwater? Everyone would drown!

Katlynn Brooke

#90. I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

Maria Thayer

#91. Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?

Julie Kagawa

#92. Love on the water, love underwater, love, love and so on.

Richard Siken

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

John Green

#94. The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.

Richard Reeves

#95. We carry our families like anchors, rooting us in storms, making sure we never drift from where and who we are. We carry our families within us the way we carry our breath underwater, keeping us afloat, keeping us alive.

Erika Swyler

#96. You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

Gwynne Shotwell

#97. Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

Frederick Lenz

#98. What occurs to me at this second is this: There is a huge world out there. I only know my dumb family and my dumb house and my dumb school and my dumb job. But there is a huge world out there ... and most of it is underwater.

A.S. King

#99. The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!

Salman Rushdie

#100. Once the wounded child awakens to its human self, a primal scream emerges from the depths of denial like the Kraken released from its underwater prison.

Christopher Zzenn Loren