Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwidge Danticat

It is the calm and silent waters that drown you.

Edmund Burke

Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.

Edward Norton

Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.

D. J. MacHale

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

D. H. Lawrence

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Dan Buettner

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

Don King

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Douglas Adams

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

Donald Hall

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

Clive James

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Andrew Schneider

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Angela Bassett

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

Alton Brown

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

Andre Balazs

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.

Chuck D.

If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

Anne Bishop

Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.

Amy Carmichael

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred.

Amy Grant

I need music like I need water.

Anne Rice

And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.

Anne Rice

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

Anne Rice

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

Anita Diament

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.

Ambrose Bierce

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

Anthony Kiedis

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

Alicia Witt

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

Amanda Beard

Breaking composure, confidence, and speed in the water makes you lose the race, not the goggles that fell off your head when you dove in.

Amanda Beard

To look good in the water you have to pick the right swimsuit. I own close to 500.

well, the water is going down, so it's getting better.

Debby Ryan

Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

Donna Brazile

Trent Lott saved my family. I needed three things from him personally, and he came through for me. He made sure that the ice that we desperately needed was delivered. He got us ice, insulin and water. The food came as well. He put politics aside and made sure my family was ok. I will always thank him for that.

Dwight L. Moody

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Duke Kahanamoku

Out of the water, I am nothing.