#sinking

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

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

— Jack Adams

#alerted #american #attacks #carriers #damaging

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#greater #order #pressure #putt #right

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#floor #holes #i #sinking

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#deeper #easier #get #ocean #sinking

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#bankers #bankruptcy #became #calling #ceo

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#biggest #biggest thing #fundamentals #get #hockey

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#candidate #city #fundamentally #hill #into

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

#afraid #almost #anesthesia #being #being afraid