Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Caine

Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable to ignore the filth, and wasted a burst of power to turn the sink, floors and porcelain toilet into sparkling, clean examples of their kind before using the facility. I felt that was a much less judgmental response than simply blowing the place off the face of the Earth, which was also a distinct temptation, especially when the storekeeper overcharged me for a bottle of cold water.

Rachel Caine

You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

Paulo Coelho

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Plutarch

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

Plutarch

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Pia Zadora

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

Philip Yancey

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

Paramahansa Yogananda

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Mary Morrissey

Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.

Joan Didion

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Jim Yong Kim

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Jim Yong Kim

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Jim Wright

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

Emma Stone

I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that.

John Irving

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

John Heywood

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

John Hay

There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

John Harvey Kellogg

It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

John Gunther

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

John Friend

Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.

Lewis Carroll

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly he spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in, With gently smiling jaws!

Lewis Carroll

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Joseph Heller

Everybody is as unstable as water.

Joseph Campbell

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

Karl von Frisch

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

Joseph Pilates

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

Justin Bieber

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it

Karen O

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

Karen Mills

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

Josh Turner

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

Karrine Steffans

When you start defining yourself, you put yourself in boxes and I don't want to be trapped in anything because I will always evolve - I will always change. It's like water. I take on many shapes. Everyone should be that way and not define themselves. I am everything.