Sink Or Float Quotes

#1. I began to recognize that there was a part of me that was stronger than I ever could have imagined. I didn't know how I was still standing. I surprised myself. I was waking up to the fact that I was in charge of my own life and it was my choice whether to sink or float.

Elizabeth Berrien

#2. Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Nick Flynn

#3. Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Alan Dershowitz

#4. I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

Virginia Woolf

#5. I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Todd Rundgren

#6. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan W. Watts

#7. Our Life is like a Boat that can Float. Some Row and Go! Some Blink and Sink!!-RVM

R.v.m.

#8. Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye Gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

Herman Melville

#9. Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

Jimmy Buffett

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

Ingmar Bergman

#13. Every little dirty thing you're thinking and more.

Abigail Roux

#14. Backwards law. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.

Alan W. Watts

#15. Her safety, needs, wants and desires would always be the most important things to him. She was the center of his universe and he would protect her at all cost.

Julia Mills

#16. I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

Francesca Marciano

#17. Hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.

Dean Koontz

#18. I was born to rock the boat. Some may sink, but we may float.

Warren Zevon

#19. Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Charlotte Mason

#20. I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.

Rosie O'Donnell

#21. There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Jane Smiley