Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muhammad Ali

Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

Michael Korda

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

Mark Twain

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

Mark Twain

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Margaret Atwood

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

Margaret Atwood

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Mark Twain

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Patrick Ness

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

Parris Glendening

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

Paris Hilton

You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.

Lafcadio Hearn

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

Gloria Steinem

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

Harry Reid

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Ken Auletta

The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

Ken Blanchard

A river without banks is a large puddle.

Ray Bradbury

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

Sherman Alexie

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Norman Chad

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story

Norbert Wiener

We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.

Norbert Wiener

Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves

Mitch Albom

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

Neil Gaiman

The only water in the forest is the River.

John Wesley Powell

The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

Paulo Coelho

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Max Muller

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Maya Angelou

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Maya Angelou

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing ...

Maya Angelou

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

Merle Shain

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

Michael Chabon

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.

Ted Nugent

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Louise Erdrich

i want to hear what's happened to you," she said evenly after a while. she gestured in the direction, down river, of the butcher shop. "it's just that there is nowhere else to start," she said gently. "niether of us is the same. but i'm different because of small, good, manageable things. you're different because ... things i don't know.