quotes about Mermaid
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
-- Anais Nin -
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.
-- Anne HullSource : "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.
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Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
-- Brian SelznickSource : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.74, Scholastic
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As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
-- Brian SelznickSource : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic
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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.
-- Brian Selznick -
Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.
-- Diana Wynne Jones -
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I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me
-- Emily Dickinson -
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
-- Esther Williams -
I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air
-- Esther Williams -
I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.
-- Federico Garcia Lorca -
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Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
-- Gemma Ward -
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
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It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish
-- Ian Holloway -
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?
-- Isidor Isaac Rabi -
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
-- Jeffrey McDanielSource : Jeffrey McDaniel (2002). “Splinter Factory”, p.55, Manic D Press
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The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)
-- John Bytheway -
And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?
-- Kelley Armstrong -
Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored†for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
-- Kiersten White -
The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.
-- Liz Kessler -
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Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!
-- Mario -
Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.
-- Rae Armantrout -
Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.
-- Shel Silverstein -
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
-- Tom Robbins -
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...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.
-- Tove Jansson -
Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.
-- Aoife O'DonovanSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.
-- Edward KitsisSource : Source: collider.com
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I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.
-- Ella Henderson -
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I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I am down! I have also always wanted to be a sultry mermaid or a bad ass fairy.
-- Katrina Law