Stay Afloat Quotes

#1. It is so hard to stay afloat in a world
that just wants to drown you.

Schuyler Peck

#2. I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

Dinaw Mengestu

#3. Grief is an ocean where the waves obey their own rhythm, their own tide, where we are just thrown about to stay afloat as best we can. Where there is in fact no guarantee that we will keep our heads above water.

Peter Watson

#4. I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

Emraan Hashmi

#5. I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

Ali Larter

#6. When the river takes me I don't try to swim or stay afloat. I open my eyes and my mouth and let the water fill me up. I feel my lungs spasm but there's no pain, and I stop being afraid. The current carries me along. I'm flotsam, and I understand that flotsam is all I've ever been.

Hillary Jordan

#7. His lack of an immediate answer opened the door for doubt to creep into the mind of a woman who struggled to stay afloat in the pool of insanity.

Jewel E. Ann

#8. For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.'

Nick Kroll

#9. If I fall in, I'm going to drown. The weights upon me are too heavy to stay afloat. My only option is to sink.

Katie McGarry

#10. I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Adam Sandler

#11. I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day.

Courtney Cole

#12. Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that.

David Byrne

#13. I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

Marc Cherry

#14. I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

Jack White

#15. There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same
but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat.

Paula Gosling

#16. Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay afloat. Trust me. So. So, we're done here.

Joshua Braff

#17. I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else

Shah Rukh Khan

#18. Many consumerist economies stay afloat by manipulating the low self-esteem of their consumers and by creating spiritual expectations through material means.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#19. So I sing
I sing to get on with it
I sing to say afloat
I float to stay free
I do not commit so that I can keep dreaming
and I dream so that the possibilities remain perfect

Heather Nova

#20. One man always makes a difference. Sometimes it's a small one. Other times, he tips a war.

Brian McClellan

#21. I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

Herb Alpert

#22. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

Douglas Adams

#23. I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Tom Stoppard

#24. Banned and lionised by drunken cactuses,
eternally sanguine in black and white, raw like the majestic sex on her ruby red deathswoman mouth, silver-coated terror in her eyes.

Laura Gentile

#25. Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

Donna Goddard

#26. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.

Madeline Levine

#27. Clover City is the type of place you leave. It's love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems to be enough to keep us afloat.

Julie Murphy

#28. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest. Levi wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't family. She didn't choose him.

Rainbow Rowell