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Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned -- Dave Eggers
She'd survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn't anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She'd looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she'd survived. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
No one has ever drowned in sweat. -- Lou Holtz
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. -- Ann Landers
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. -- Thomas Fuller
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. -- Thomas Fuller
I have been in danger of being drowned twice. -- John Aubrey
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. -- Samuel Johnson
We made sure nobody died on the show. We made sure nobody ever drowned on 'Baywatch.' -- David Hasselhoff
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground. -- Ludovico Ariosto
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. -- Stephen Sondheim
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. -- Richard Flanagan
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. -- Raoul Vaneigem
Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city, and to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have. -- Julian Ovenden
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. -- Robert B. Laughlin
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. -- John Strachan
Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him. -- Val Kilmer
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues. -- Cathleen Schine
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. -- John Millington Synge
There are times when the voice of repining is completely drowned out by various louder voices: the voice of government, the voice of taste, the voice of celebrity, the voice of the real world, the voice of fear and force, the voice of gossip. -- Alice Oswald
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. -- Samuel Johnson
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. -- Karl A. Menninger
I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on. -- Israel Broussard
I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger. -- Jeremy Clarkson
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable! -- Sam Neill
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. -- Jennifer Granholm
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature. -- Luanne Rice
Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned. -- Katherine Paterson
Good swimmers at length are drowned. -- George Herbert
Wine has drowned more than the sea. -- Publilius Syrus
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi
She flooded my thoughts. I drowned in peace. -- Faraaz Kazi
My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion. -- Sting
Darkness is drowned by three lights; nature, knowledge, and truth. -- Barbra Annino
Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? -- C. S. Lewis
Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies. -- P. C. Cast
One by one I drowned all the people Iâ??d been. -- Conor Oberst
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. -- Mark Twain
A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned. -- L.A. Meyer
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendidâ??â?? boldly angelic. -- Aberjhani
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest. -- Voltaire
She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim. -- Marilyn French
...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. -- Mercedes Lackey
The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived. -- Salman Rushdie
Our past sins, our fractured lives--soon nothing but drowned stars in dark skies. -- Beatriz Fitzgerald Fernandez
Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. -- Kin Hubbard
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. -- Karl A. Menninger
Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation. -- Confucius
A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare. -- Joseph Conrad
When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man -- e. e. cummings
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. -- Isaac Watts
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. -- George Herbert
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other. -- Anatole Broyard
Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other." -- Anatole Broyard
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. -- Herman Melville
If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in. -- Tommy Cooper
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He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. -- Robert Jordan
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. -- Henry Miller
Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. -- Thomas Bernhard
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it. -- Jim Harrison
I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think the sheer number of pop stars has kind of drowned out, somewhat, our interest. We're just submerged. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet. -- Woody Hayes
How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big bathtub. -- Rick Riordan
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. -- Josephine Tey
It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating. -- Michael Moorcock
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. -- Robert Jay Lifton
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. -- William Butler Yeats
I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful. -- Andre Maurois
Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. -- Juvenal
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy. -- Joni Mitchell
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears. -- Ted Turner
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. -- Roger Ebert
The Duke of Clarence . . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine. -- Robert Fabyan
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave. -- Ovid
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. -- Mo Ibrahim
...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned. -- George Monbiot
Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub. -- John Elder Robison
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. -- Peter De Vries
I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both. -- Jessi Kirby
But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs. -- Ibn al-Farid
I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood. -- Charles Spurgeon
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self. -- Jeff Lindsay
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a broken man can heal. -- Annie Proulx
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is. -- Clive Barker
The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned. -- Alan Bradley
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. -- Harold Rosenberg
No; they nearly drowned you, and not even on purpose but only through carelessness. I am not letting them have you back," Temeraire said." -- Naomi Novik
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned. -- Elizabeth Goudge
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned. -- MaryJanice Davidson
If you see a river running smoothly, it's because someone has drowned in it, and if it's raging, it means that it's still got bloodlust. -- Florence Welch
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't. -- John Millington Synge
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking -- Saul Williams
I would have drowned without you to watch over me...I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone. -- Alice Hoffman
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby. -- Anthony Jeselnik
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. -- Isaac Asimov
On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown. -- Shahrnush Parsipur
Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it. -- David Brin
Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub. -- Dan Quayle
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live. -- Alice Hoffman
Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. -- Thomas Merton
This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table. -- Charlaine Harris
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory. -- Erich Maria Remarque
It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is. -- Gene Simmons
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...' -- Paulo Coelho
A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not drowned. What now? -- Sandra Scarr
When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. -- Thomas Dolby

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