Best Creek Quotes
71 Creek quotes by 61 unique authors
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Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
— Jim Fowler
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The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.
— David Ogilvy
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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the…
— Mark Kostabi
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Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to…
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever.…
— Jon Hamm
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And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
— Chris LeDoux
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As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along…
— Rick Perry
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After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They…
— Busy Philipps
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
— Dan Rather
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get…
— Will Rogers
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
— Annie Dillard
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I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems…
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in…
— Gary Snyder
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Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek,…
— Gary Snyder
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards…
— Jack Kerouac
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Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones…
— James Lee Burke
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Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!
— Dr. Seuss
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Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.
— Jerry Spinelli
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We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
— Katherine Paterson
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