Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Reality whistles a different tune underwater."
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Underwater
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John Green
Author, YouTuber
"I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back."
Hayao Miyazaki
Animator, Director
"I like underwater life."
Hayao Miyazaki
Animator, Director
"I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over."
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"Baptists are only funny underwater."
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"Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced."
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"I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk."
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"Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!"
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"Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once."
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"I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know."
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"Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever."
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"No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements."
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