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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. -- Cameron Bright
I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. -- Robert Ballard
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff. -- David R. Ellis
Baptists are only funny underwater. -- Neil Simon
Reality whistles a different tune underwater. -- Tom Robbins
I can't even open my eyes underwater. -- Jessica Chastain
I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. -- Kathleen Quinlan
I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.' -- Sylvia Earle
I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. -- John Green
Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land. -- Laird Hamilton
Everyone loves to fly and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you, -- Graham Hawkes
But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim. -- Karen White
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back. -- Kurt Vonnegut
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning. -- David Doubilet
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' -- Antoine Predock
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater. -- Lloyd Bridges
It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry. -- Zac Efron
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid -- John Cornyn
I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like. And I'll say 'Dive in, man, and go see it. Swim around. You'll be okay. -- Stana Katic
This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other. -- Eoin Colfer
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence. -- Anne Lamott
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. -- Rick Riordan
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater. -- Frederick Lenz
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. -- Dave Barry
Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid. -- Alex Flinn
Underwater nobody can dance. Let this be a lesson in basket weaving. And love. -- Jarod Kintz
I like underwater life. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you. -- Graham Hawkes
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans. -- Enric Sala
There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. -- Robert Ballard
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists. -- Brian Skerry
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid. -- John Cornyn
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. -- Sylvia Earle
I have been blessed to realize my dream of becoming an underwater photojournalist, but with that, I feel an obligation and sense of urgency to share what I have seen with others. -- Brian Skerry
When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short. -- Jessy Schram
I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well. -- Diane Ackerman
I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out. -- Steve Irwin
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero. -- Enric Sala
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there. -- Cameron Bright
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive. -- David Blaine
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen. -- Bear Grylls
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When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different. -- Wes Anderson
The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too, and has some advantages, like full Station simulation, not just part. Like all simulators, they have parts that are wrong and misleading: an important thing to remember when preparing for reality. -- Chris Hadfield
Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that. -- Will Hobbs
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission. -- William Stone
People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don't have to do anything. The chances of that shark attacking you in any way is so remote. The sea should be enjoyed, the animals in it. When you see a shark underwater, you should say, 'How lucky I am to see this beautiful animal in his environment!' -- Eugenie Clark
No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional. -- Zach Anner
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold. -- Walter Darby Bannard
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. -- David Quammen
The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. -- Tom Bissell
Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once. -- Mark Twain
There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater. -- Scott McCallum
And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. -- Rick Riordan
Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. -- Amy Hempel
I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk. -- Katie Hoff
Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014. -- Janet Yellen
If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me. -- Leigh Newman
As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater. -- Rick Riordan
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the seaâ??s consoling silence. -- Cristina Garcia
Do you know why I'm the fastest heavyweight in the world? I'm the only heavyweight that trains underwater! -- Muhammad Ali
It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking. -- Laura Moriarty
I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke. -- Eric Idle
I feel much more comfortable either up in a tree, or underwater. That's where I feel the most zen. -- Margot Robbie
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. -- William Manchester
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden. -- Stephen Harrigan
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. -- Christina Romer
Like a fish needs a bicycle. A goldfish riding a bicycle underwater. I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle. -- Irina Dunn
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. -- Ernest Hemingway
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. -- Jerry Spinelli
I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted. -- Jeanette Winterson
I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater. -- Maria Thayer
I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy! -- Kevin Costner
Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. -- Robin Hobb
Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater? -- Mort Sahl
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. -- Joan Didion
We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face? -- Billy Nungesser
The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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. -- Esther Williams
The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night! -- Salman Rushdie
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike. -- Dana Gould
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 3Â°F fever. -- William H. Calvin
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. -- Ben Marcus
Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away? -- A.M. Homes
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water. But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. -- Elayne Boosler
I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater. -- Pamela Anderson
It's amazing how much you're missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It's like breathing again after being underwater for far too long -- Jenny Lawson
When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater -- Otsuichi
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. -- China Mieville
The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted. -- John Mortimer
I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen. -- Mitch Hedberg
That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe. -- Mick Ebeling
When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The day quivered. The sky was as deep as the ocean. We breathed underwater. -- Karen Foxlee
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism. -- Richard Reeves

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