To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.
I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.
My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.
Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.
Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.
In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a selection process as unconcerned with qualifications as that which made Darius King of Persia. . . . he whose horse was the first to neigh at sunrise should be King.
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.
I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.
Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I could do that. I can. Have. Sometimes, not because I was callous but had to do it.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.