If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to p
Quotes about quicksand (16 Quotes)
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
The higher the stress, the more liquid the quicksand becomes, so movement by a trapped body causes it to sink in deeply.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
The worst thing is, this caused the community to make a decision based on information that has a quicksand foundation,
America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are 5 billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are. And we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunications, you can have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons.
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
You have to introduce water into the sand. And the easiest way to do that is to make it trickle along your leg into the quicksand, by making a circular motion with your leg.
I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction.
In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
When President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and declared victory in Iraq, I think he chose the wrong backdrop for his photo-op, ... If you ask me, if he really wanted to show us the state of affairs, he should have landed on a patch of quicksand.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of. So I was relieved to get out of London.
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.