Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joe Baca

With a growing population, there is a growing need for more water delivery and storage.

Jimmy Hoffa

They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.

Louisa May Alcott

Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

John Florio

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

John Fowles

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

John F. Kennedy

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

John F. Kennedy

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

Jonathan Horton

I eat very clean foods, healthy foods and drink a lot of water.

Edward Burtynsky

Water, like many other resources, is harvested, transported and used throughout all aspects of society. Unlike other resources, water is critical to the survival of all forms of life. The underlying question that sits at the core of my exploration is to what degree can we shape water before it begins to shape us.

Edie Brickell

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

Hermann Hesse

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

Hermann Hesse

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

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.

Joan Rivers

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

Joan Rivers

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

Georg Trakl

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

George A. Smith

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Gabrielle Reece

I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big imp

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 Lasseter

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.