When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget… — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash. — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
There is a vortex of energy at the bottom of Walden Pond. That's where the inter-dimensional opening is. As people swim in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
