A Quote by Tori Amos

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning.

Tori Amos

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Come Drowning Sing

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Tori Amos
American - Musician
Born: August 22, 1963

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Ilsa J. Bick

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 Kitsis

In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.

Malcolm Nance

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

T. S. Eliot

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

John Lennon

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Jodi Picoult

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

Kenny Chesney

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

John Fletcher

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

Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

T. S. Eliot

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

George R. R. Martin

Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand.

Cassandra Clare

The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.