I nearly drowned in a park pond when I was six years old and I've been terrified of water ever since. — A. J. Odudu Copy Share Image
Writing and performing are to me what water and movement are to sharks. — Rachael Yamagata Copy Share Image
“Oh, wary, well, I’m wary of the water I drink, it might be poisoned,” said Glinda. “That doesn’t mean I stop drinking… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us. — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Am I the only one who thinks water has that taste that no one can describe? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There have been times when things get stuck in my throat, but you just work it up or down. Like how a… — Joey Chestnut Copy Share Image
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though… — Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney Copy Share Image
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“I grabbed my tackle box and bole and caught up with Pancake to go scare away some fish. He was really good… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be? — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself. — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are working on a lot of innovative ways to provide safer drinking water to the American public. Innovative financing ways. — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water." Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Girls have unique powers; they get wet without water, bleed without injury and make boneless things hard .. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the Himalayas, I spent some of the most exhilarating moments of my life, shooting white water rapids in a kayak. — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image