Sink Quotes

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

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.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.