“The water I breathe would drown the more evolved.”

“It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.”

“You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.”

“Percy muttered. ‘I want to drown her.’
‘Be patient, water boy.’
‘Don’t call me water boy.”

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

“[Portraying Godzilla in the water] is the most dangerous part of my job. If I fell over, I could drown. I would never be able to get back up with the Godzilla costume on.”

“Dancing with the wind: the fire burns, the water drowns.”

“If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.”

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”

“I said breathe. Not do a fish-out of-water imitation.”