Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Neal Stephenson

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

Milan Kundera

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Mike May

I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

Marcel Proust

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Joseph Addison

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Jose Bergamin

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jorge Luis Borges

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

Jonathan Stroud

In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)

Kellan Lutz

I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.

Henry Adams

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Henry Adams

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

Henry Hazlitt

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

Henry David Thoreau

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

James Joyce

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

James Richardson

Happiness, like water, is always available, but so often it seems we'd prefer a different drink.

James Richardson

Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.

James Richardson

Water deepens where it has to wait.

Laurence Sterne

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

Liam Payne

I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

Johnny Weissmuller

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

Louis MacNeice

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

A. E. Housman

And like a skylit water stood, The bluebells in the azured wood

This is like my water in Devore. It comes right from the mountains.

Norman MacCaig

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

Norman Maclean

I am haunted by waters.

Orison Swett Marden

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

O. Henry

Women's weapon, water-drops.

Ellen G. White

Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.... Drink some, a little time before or after a meal.

The water didn't go up to the roof.

When the water recedes, you can see any buckling and contraction that wouldn't be there when it's wet.

Neil Young

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

Rachel Maddow

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.