Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Bart Stupak

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

Allen Tate

I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....

Ameen Rihani

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

Douglas Coupland

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

Lakes with low populations use secondary sites. That is how they maintain their small populations.

Lakes are the lifeblood of millions and millions of Africans,

Bob Balaban

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

Garrison Keillor

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Edward Burnett Tylor

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Hans Christian Andersen

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

Henny Youngman

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."

Jennifer Granholm

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

George W. Bush

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

Klaus Kinski

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

Georgia O'Keeffe

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

Eoin Colfer

We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything I say sounds tough. Now, get out of the lake, fairy.

Eminem

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

Elvis Costello

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

Rabindranath Tagore

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

Phyllis Diller

Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!

Rabindranath Tagore

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

John Maynard Keynes

Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

John Keats

A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

Martin Luther

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits....