#sinking

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#flame #friendship #pass #rosy #sinking

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#floor #holes #i #sinking

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#biggest #biggest thing #fundamentals #get #hockey

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. ↗

— George Orwell

#belong #class #dreadful #feared #further

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#candidate #city #fundamentally #hill #into

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you. ↗

— Matthew Hale

#own #praise #reputation #sign #sinking

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#dear #desperate #fiddling #his #life

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#deeper #easier #get #ocean #sinking

You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#depending #depleted #feeling #funds #gives