Watery Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed… — William Shakespeare
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make… — D. H. Lawrence
Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. — John le Carre
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny… — Anthony Burgess
Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the… — Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take notice or we… — Roger Tory Peterson
I'll just have itchy, watery eyes! — Jeff Foxworthy
Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the… — Aisha Tyler
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for… — Eustace Conway
The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water… — Angel Ganivet
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between. — Walter Scott
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never… — Ted Dekker
Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way… — Nancy Gibbs
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are made for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself… — John Masefield
Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green… — Louis Pullig De Gouy
Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions… — Allen Ginsberg
I went to work at seven in the morning. Around noon time we got the watery soup. And we worked until seven or eight or… — Lucille Eichengreen
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust… — Seneca the Younger
You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write… — Kelly Sue DeConnick

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