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Water Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or…
- Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
- God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
- Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.
- In the water I am beautiful.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply…
- There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass…
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only…
More Water Quotes
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- Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. — Teresa of Avila
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot… — Erykah Badu
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as… — Tallulah Bankhead
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams