Best Watery Quotes
53 Watery quotes by 48 unique authors
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all…
— Pliny the Elder
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She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their…
— Robert Southey
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Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting…
— Edwin Arnold
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
— Matthew Arnold
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may…
— Arthur Golden
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We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city…
— Clive Barker
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He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
— Margaret Atwood
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The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the…
— Charles Bukowski
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Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau…
— James Sallis
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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and…
— Albert Camus
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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And…
— William Shakespeare
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When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
— Susanna Clarke
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The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.
— Lauren Oliver
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My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I…
— Ruta Sepetys
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Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her father’s other brother, a horrible little man called Fergus, as he nodded sadly…
— Derek Landy
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Wonder why we can do this,' he called out with his mind. The mental effort of speaking to her was already straining—he felt a headache…
— James Dashner
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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote,…
— Herman Melville
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Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on…
— Herman Melville
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Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest…
— Marcus Samuelsson
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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were…
— Alan Huffman
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Love is more alike drugs. it makes you feel good at times but at the same it has side effects like heartbreak, watery eyes, and…
— Kshitij Roshan
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Ti's of thee to fall from the deep blue sky into my heart is an endless pit of sorrow to climb back up you've got…
— Sarah Hughes
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48 authors contributed a total of 53 Watery Quotes, led by these top contributors: