Top 30 Sunk Quotes

I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, ‘That’s it. That’s it. You’ve sunk too far!’

Despite all the hoopla – despite all the umpa – after 5 years of UDP mismanagement, corruption, and incompetence, we have sunk deeper into debt of $2.4 billion: some $200 million deeper in debt.

I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we’re sunk.

And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

It still hasn’t sunk in that I’m going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I’m working with some great people.

There’s this wonderful first assistant and he’ll be saying, ‘Now Harry goes down among the dragons.’ You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you’re sunk.

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China’s endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

I went to religious schools. I wasn’t that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

With but a few exceptions, we don’t have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.

I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn’t sunk in.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

I don’t take it very seriously. You shouldn’t let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don’t really practise it. I don’t see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I’ll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn’t have a chance.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

I’m glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can’t imagine doing anything else.

To have this gold medal around my neck is just bonkers and still hasn’t really sunk in.

It’s essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: ‘The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I’.

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn’t get it. We didn’t want the Japanese to get it intact.

It didn’t really sink in for me when I first heard that we would be supporting RHCP. But when I heard people around us commenting on how incredible it is to be on tour with such a celebrated band, that’s when it finally sunk in and realised what a remarkable honour it is to tour with RHCP.

I still can’t believe I’m a professional wrestler in the first place. That hasn’t sunk in yet. I’m sure I’ll look back when I’m 50 or 60, if I make it that far, and think about everything that’s happened.

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.