soil-colored liquid was a bog and he was sinking.

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers…

— Jack Adams

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm…

— Edwidge Danticat

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Abandon ship. Fend for yourself. Youve got that sinking feeling and nothing else.

— The Swellers

I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and…

— Isaac Asimov

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.

— Arthur M. Jolly

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings.

— Nancy Dunnan

“We all have the same holes in our hearts Everything falls apart at the exact same time It all comes together perfectly for the…

— Listener

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag…

— Francois Truffaut

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have…

— Alfred Marshall

When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old…

— Martin Amis

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things…

— Roger Waters

The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black…

— Mo Yan

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.

— Thomas Troward