The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations. — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
When somebody starts going down, rats start leaving the sinking ship. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
“I finally have permission to breathe, but I can’t. I inhale like sucking in salt water. I’m drowning in the unexpected. I’m… — Carrie Lofty Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty of my own experience is crushing. I am drowning in an infinite sea. Sinking slowly, the weight of the lightless… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Many people who became successful were once first time global failures. But because they didn't give up on their dreams, failure could… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about the Lusitania. I started reading because I had nothing else in my plate. And as soon as… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“To the Harbormaster" I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it got caught in… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“We all have the same holes in our hearts Everything falls apart at the exact same time It all comes together perfectly… — Listener Copy Share Image
Im sinking inside And the maps and lines are broken down tonight. I swallow my pride But were drowning in the ocean… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“We had proceeded but a few days, coasting the crushing capes of rock that every where seemed to run out in a… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
“And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength. It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“Without looking up to God, sinking leads to drowning. But when my eyes are locked on his, sinking tells a different story.… — Emily P. Freeman Copy Share Image
