Quotes About Underwater

I wanted to twinkle underwater like the lights of the city.

Sea mammals, in particular, have evolved to take advantage of how well and far sound can travel under water, and to compensate for poor visibility in the dark deep.

her mouth working mutely like the valve of an undersea creature

Cape Canaveral. The ultimate historic site. And it's underwater. How could they not have noticed what was going on? They went to the Moon, and they couldn't see that the glaciers were melting?" "I'm sure they did," said Alex. "But you know how people are. They're going to resist changing a lifestyle unless the danger is looking them directly in the eye. The glaciers must have seemed like somebody else's problem.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

Full fathom five thy father lies

Everything drifts. Everything is slowly swirling, philosophies tangled with the grocery lists, unreal-real anxieties like rose thorns waiting to tear the uncertain flesh, nonentities of thoughts floating like plankton, green and orange particles, seaweed -- lots of that, dark purple and waving, sharks with fins like cutlasses, herself held underwater by her hair, snared around auburn-rusted anchor chains.

Ever look at the ocean at night, at that fathomless darkness, and wonder what's under there?" he asked. "Same thing that's under it in the daytime." Rachel shrugged. Sam laughed. "I see there's no scaring you into moving a little closer to me for safety.

Baptists are only funny underwater.

In movies when ever people go under the sea I hold my breath, I almost died in Finding Nemo.

It's a good thing I don't bleed like a human because hostile marine fauna was about all this situation needed.

He eats gillyweed

I realized that all those superheroes were doing was fighting themselves, and that getting to breathe underwater or shoot fire from your fingers didn't really make up for being screwed up in the first place. It was just the consolation prize--you got the great costume and the invisible jet for being a loser in everything else.

The insight presumably occurs when a subconscious connection between ideas fits so well that it is forced to pop out into awareness, like a cork held underwater breaking out into the air after it is released.

Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!

Tu sei un grande amico di Mo Yan e potresti suggerirgli questo espediente letterario: se, in un punto della trama, non si possiede una perfetta padronanza dei personaggi o un'adeguata tecnica espressiva, basta spingere tutti nell'acqua. In quel mondo il silenzio è più eloquente delle parole, è un elemento incolore più vivido dei colori stessi: per un momento lui dovrebbe far finta che l'azione si stia svolgendo sul fondo dell'acqua

The whaleman's rule of thumb was that, before diving, a whale blew once for each minute it would spend underwater. Whalemen also knew that while underwater the whale continued at the same speed and in the same direction as it had been traveling before the dive. Thus, an experienced whaleman could calculate with remarkable precision where a submerged whale was likely to reappear.

Even underwater they could hear him laughing.

The people had abducted her, submerged her in the timeless otherworld that was no more real than the underwater palaces of those other abductors, the Sidhe, the unearthly faerie who stole human children, twisted their souls from their bodies, and filled them instead with dark glamour. Nothing was real.

That night she dreamt of seawater coursing over her glistening skin, of flying underwater and over it, and woke in the glimmer of dawn with a shivering yearning, delicious and unnameable.

Peretur blinked, and the strange underwater image of the man lying on stone dissolved into mist. She swayed again, and this time Nimuë steadied her.

There are other special problems connected with the discovery of ancient cities. Alexandria was ravaged by fires and street fighting, and its ancient waterfront is underwater. Some discoveries at Pompeii were not revealed for many decades, because the wall paintings are so pornographic.

Una scienza incapace di spaventare è una scienza inutile. Noi biologi del mare avremmo bisogno di un poeta per raccontare cosa succede là sotto e per accendere la nostalgia di quando il mare era ancora il mare.