Ponds Quotes - Page 2

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

Empty the pond to get the fish.

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.

Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound.

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso three times, and they’ve never been farther than Ford in their lives.” Kate peered absently into the farm pond, and clucked again. “Thoughtless creatures. They’ve forgotten the fish.

Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.