Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avicenna

It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

Arthur Golden

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

Arthur Conan Doyle

The soul is swayed by the waters.

Baltasar Gracian

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

Arvid Carlsson

In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.

Bootsy Collins

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

Billy Carter

I found out water can be drunk straight.

Brendan Gill

In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.

Bruce Lee

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

Bruce Lee

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Bruce Lee

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

Edwidge Danticat

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

Dee Snider

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details

Deb Caletti

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

Deepak Chopra

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

I am just not a water baby. I can swim, but I just don't.

Art Buchwald

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Cameron Bright

There is so much life underneath the water that we dont know about.

C. S. Lewis

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

Anne Sexton

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Catherine Martin

I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.

Bjork

I'm a whisper in water.

Walter Benjamin

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way of viewing my life was a healthy reaction to what I was seeing every day.

The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

We are day by day. We have no water running!

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

We need the water fixed. We need to take a shower.

Water is what always has done all the damage.

We'll have everything from water to aspirin for the jurors.

William Shakespeare

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.