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Quotes About Buoyancy

You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.
~ Unknown
I don't break; I bounce.
~ Patricia Briggs
There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was so clear and buoyant that he asked himself why he wanted to do it at all. And he said to himself that he wanted to do it because he was evil, thoroughly evil. And he smiled as he said it and was content. He looked quite innocent, like any happy person.
~ Patrick Süskind
The search for ground lights is not enough. There is the axis to be followed and '—dot dot dot—' forgotten. You must above all find lightness, buoyancy, the permanent defiance of gravity.
~ Paul Celan
Like a drowning man with a Styrofoam cooler.
~ Paul Levine