Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Dean

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

Cassandra Clare

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

George Eliot

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

George Eliot

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

Julia Cameron

Water seeks its own level and water rises collectively

Stuart Pearce

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

Richard Hammond

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

Raymond Carver

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Raymond Carver

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

Joan Rivers

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

Joan Rivers

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

Georg Trakl

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

George A. Smith

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Gabrielle Reece

I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big imp

Heidi Montag

How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

Herodotus

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

Heather Donahue

I'm trying to drink more water.

Hideo Kojima

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

Hilaire Belloc

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

Henry Ward Beecher

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Henry Ward Beecher

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

Steven Wright

After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?

Tom Hanks

Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we [filmmakers] made.

Joseph Mitchell

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Nathan Myhrvold

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

John Waters

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

John Steinbeck

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

John Steinbeck

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

John Salazar

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

Martin Luther

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

Mark Pincus

The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If you pick the right body of water, you might not need a boat.