Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Robbins

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

Tom Robbins

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Tom Robbins

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

Steve Erickson

By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.

Suzanne Collins

On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.

Stuart Pearce

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

Richard Hammond

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

Raymond Carver

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Raymond Carver

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

T. D. Jakes

Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.

Sylvia Earle

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Suzanne Somers

I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

Scott Westerfeld

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Ron Atkinson

...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

Rick Warren

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

Rick Riordan

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

Veronica Roth

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

Stone Gossard

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

St. Jerome

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

Sonya Hartnett

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

Roger McGough

Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.

W. H. Auden

Water is the soul of the Earth.

William Dampier

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

Tory Burch

When I started my company, many people said I shouldn't launch it as a retail concept because it was too big a risk. They told me to launch as a wholesaler to test the waters - because that was the traditional way.

Van Jones

We have the water, food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.

Van Morrison

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

William Arthur Ward

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

Warren Zevon

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Yoko Ono

My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.