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#1 ScubaHawk

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Posted 09 September 2005 - 06:21 AM

The new SD T-Shirt has a quote from Sir Winston Churchill on the back reading:

"It will be long . . .
It will be hard . . .
There will be no withdrawal"
To which WW added the tag line - WHO KNEW HE WAS A DIVER !!!

And so is born another contest. We are looking for an actual and untouched historical quote -- that if read in the right mind set could be taken for a quote about diving. You are not allowed to alter the quote and, of course, you must name who you are quoting. If the winning quote is cool enough to go on one of SD's hot T-shirts the winner gets a free shirt with their quote on it.
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Posted 09 September 2005 - 02:05 PM

The new SD T-Shirt has a quote from Sir Winston Churchill on the back reading:

"It will be long . . .
It will be hard . . .
There will be no withdrawal"
To which WW added the tag line - WHO KNEW HE WAS A DIVER !!!

And so is born another contest. We are looking for an actual and untouched historical quote -- that if read in the right mind set could be taken for a quote about diving. You are not allowed to alter the quote and, of course, you must name who you are quoting. If the winning quote is cool enough to go on one of SD's hot T-shirts the winner gets a free shirt with their quote on it.

Ok, how do we submit, by posting here? Can we submit more than one quote?
"The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen

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#3 finGrabber

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Posted 09 September 2005 - 02:10 PM

The new SD T-Shirt has a quote from Sir Winston Churchill on the back reading:

"It will be long . . .
It will be hard . . .
There will be no withdrawal"
To which WW added the tag line - WHO KNEW HE WAS A DIVER !!!

And so is born another contest. We are looking for an actual and untouched historical quote -- that if read in the right mind set could be taken for a quote about diving. You are not allowed to alter the quote and, of course, you must name who you are quoting. If the winning quote is cool enough to go on one of SD's hot T-shirts the winner gets a free shirt with their quote on it.

Ok, how do we submit, by posting here? Can we submit more than one quote?

Sounds good to me!!

ok my entry:

"dive more" by finGrabber, May 29, 2005, Lake Athens, Texas

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Posted 09 September 2005 - 02:36 PM

The new SD T-Shirt has a quote from Sir Winston Churchill on the back reading:

"It will be long . . .
It will be hard . . .
There will be no withdrawal"
To which WW added the tag line - WHO KNEW HE WAS A DIVER !!!

Try as I might, that quote sounds more like SEX than diving, but whatever!

Here are my submissions:

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
William Cowper
English poet & translator (1731 - 1800)


"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."
Christopher Reeve
Actor (1952 - 2004)

Edited by Brinybay, 09 September 2005 - 02:37 PM.

"The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen

"A good marriage is like an interlocking neurosis, where the rocks in one person's head fill up the holes in the other's."

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Posted 09 September 2005 - 08:17 PM

Too cool!!!

Yes diving is hard...or maybe its just hard NOT to dive!

Yes it can be long...or is that what happens when we wait too long to get wet?

and when I'm wreckdiving...there is NO withdrawel! And I know once you start diving...you will NEVER withdrawel from it!

Besides.... who said sex and diving weren't essentially the same????? :teeth:

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Posted 09 September 2005 - 08:55 PM

Besides.... who said sex and diving weren't essentially the same????? :teeth:

Scuba diving is much cheaper in the long run... :teeth:
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#7 ScubaHawk

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Posted 10 September 2005 - 09:24 PM

Guess I could have been more clear, but hey! I was in Grenada. You can post as many as you want, put all posts on this site. Once my brain arrives (it's coming on a later flight) I'll come up with a few myself.
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Posted 10 September 2005 - 10:16 PM

"I have Immortal longings in me."
(William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Act v, Sc. 2)
That could be about sex too...

"It redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half."
(Francis Bacon, Essays "Of Friendship")
Again, possibly about sex...

"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
(John Stuart Mill, Liberty Ch. 5)


That should do it for now.
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Posted 11 September 2005 - 06:42 AM

Way cool so far!!! This may be a tough contest to judge! :teeth:

Oh well...we may just have to have more t-shirts then! :teeth:

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Posted 11 September 2005 - 10:05 AM

"Come, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below!

--Matthew Arnold

"I should like to rise and go
Where the golden apples grow;
Where below another sky
parrot islands anchored lie."
--Robert Louis Stevenson

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever as free as a fish.
--John Ruskin

"There is nothing, absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats--Kenneth Grahame
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Posted 11 September 2005 - 12:33 PM

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. --General George S. Patton

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness --Mahatma Gandhi

Youth has no age.
--Pablo Picasso
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WHO DAT!!!!

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Posted 11 September 2005 - 12:44 PM

Those are good, Hawk!
There are old divers and there are bold divers, but there ain't no old, bold divers.

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 10:53 AM

I remembered a great one this morning,

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny
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Posted 12 September 2005 - 11:33 AM

I remembered a great one this morning,

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny

Oooh....this one is definitely in the running! Excellent! -ww

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 01:07 PM

And of course there is always...

Those who dare, do, those who dare not, do not.
Powell

Or

One today is worth two tommorrows.
Romulo
“There is no more unhappy thing than a man who has accomplished all his ends in life.â€




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