Best Drown Thoughts
519 Drown quotes by 404 unique authors
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
— Charles de Gaulle
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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide…
— Junot Diaz
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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things…
— Junot Diaz
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When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another…
— Junot Diaz
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
— W.C. Fields
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Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
— Matthew Henry
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of…
— Steve Jobs
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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
— Frida Kahlo
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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
— Ann Landers
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I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them…
— Lucy Larcom
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Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
— Terrence Malick
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I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation…
— Dylan Moran
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My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the…
— Grover Norquist
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Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
— Michelle Obama
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They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just seem…
— Karl Pilkington
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I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.
— Aubrey Plaza
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you…
— Alan Watts
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If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
— Steven Wright
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My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs…
— Marilynne Robinson
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to…
— Ayn Rand
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If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out…
— Alice Hoffman
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