#submerged

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#falling #into #river #staying #submerged

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns. ↗

— John Sexton

#being #came #cloth #color #focusing

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#been #geographic #i #kind #little

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ↗

— George Washington Cable

#darkened #decay #entered #gigantic #hung

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#future #had #invent #live #lost

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#aware #consciously #director #happen #i

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#express #get #hitting #i #i think

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#boats #days #families #farmers #fields

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#because #being #diving #great #i