Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Bryan Davis

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Carl Hiaasen

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

Carl Jung

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Carl Jung

Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.

Bob Saget

Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

Billy Tauzin

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Billy Tauzin

Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment.

Bill Watterson

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Bill Ford

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

Bill Frist

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

Jane Austen

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jared Diamond

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

Jared Diamond

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.

Janine Benyus

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

Janine Benyus

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

Anne Sexton

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Catherine Martin

I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.

Alan Coren

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

Edward Norton

Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.

Barbara Kingsolver

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Bruce Schneier

Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

Bruce Schneier

Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.

Brad Paisley

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

Jane Goodall

If everybody on the planet today had the same standard of living as the average European or American, we would need three new planets. But we don't even have one new planet. We have this one, and with the way we're polluting it, the shrinking water resources, the climate change, the experimentation with plants... the outlook is grim.

James Vincent McMorrow

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

We really don't have any water playgrounds in the city. This will be our first one.

Benjamin Franklin

Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

Avicenna

It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

Arthur Golden

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us