Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

David Brooks

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

Arthur Rimbaud

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.

Alan Lee

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

A. A. Milne

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Agatha Christie

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Adoniram Judson

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

Dante Alighieri

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Rick Riordan

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Oliver Herford

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

Laure Manaudou

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

Claire Danes

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Peer Steinbruck

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

Jerry Spinelli

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.