Water Quotes - Page 62

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.

Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

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

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? That must have been some weird marketing meeting over in France. Some French guy's sitting there, like, "How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water."

The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.