Lake Quotes

444 Lake quotes by 339 unique authors

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the… — Hans Christian Andersen
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe. — Aaron Sorkin
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch… — Joanne Fluke
Before there is peace, blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red. — Erin Hunter
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because,… — Paulo Coelho
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on… — Haruki Murakami
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the… — Frank Zappa
Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record.… — Miriam Toews
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles,… — Jean Rhys
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. — Richard Siken
A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more... — Dean Koontz
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed… — Che Guevara
The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a… — James Patterson
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear… — Neil Gaiman
When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead… — Garth Nix
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. — Maya Angelou
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come… — Rick Riordan
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of… — Cornelia Funke
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking… — Charles Bukowski
Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself… — Douglas Coupland
...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this… — Gary Paulsen

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