Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Robinson Jeffers

The tides are in our veins.

Robert Towne

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Suzanne Somers

I was actually going to be a chef before I got sidetracked. I used to make deserts for restaurants as a young teenage mother to make money.

Jim Bell

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

J. Horton

I love the Desert Survivors, because this group goes to all those places other people just drive past. And I've grown to love the desert because of all its wide-open spaces. They provide me with a true sense of peacefulness and freedom.

Henry Rollins

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Libba Bray

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Og Mandino

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

Robert Taylor

Desert golf is not easy. People lose a lot of golf balls. Of course, they're not inclined to go and look around for it in the desert. I don't recommend that for anyone. Cactus aren't very friendly.

Tom Duxbury

That's a culmination of over ten years worth of work. To see (the capsule) in one piece on the floor of the desert is just very moving.

Christine Johnson

Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.