Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

John Green

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

P. T. Barnum

Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always ‘under the harrow’.

Ovid

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

Ovid

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

Ovid

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

Ovid

Dripping water hollows out a stone

David A. Bednar

Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body.

David Mamet

One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.

Jack Kerouac

Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Fred Brooks

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

Erich Maria Remarque

To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the whirl of the vortex sucking me slowly, irresistibly, inescapably into itself.

Eric Clapton

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

Eric Clapton

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I know I won't even go in the water and we've canceled all of our snorkel sails.

Greg Fitzsimmons

Ever see a skinny guy on a cold day? You know they tremble like Chihuahuas. Then you see a fat guy in a tank top - nine degrees, he's sweatin'. Look at 'Titanic,' remember the boat goes into the icy cold waters? Little skinny Leonardo: dead. Final scene, Kathy Bates on a rowboat, coat open, eating a hotdog.

Gracie Allen

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

Gertrude Ederle

When we're in the water, we're not in this world.

Gwyneth Paltrow

If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.

The (lashes) are care-free, soluble to water and they look natural.

Dan Buettner

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

George Herbert

Water trotted is as good as oates.

George Herbert

Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.

George Herbert

The scalded head feares cold water.

George Herbert

Let none say, I will not drinke water.

Gary Hamel

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

George Meredith

The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

Jason Segel

I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

Hillary Clinton

I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.

Hillary Clinton

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.