Drop of water Quote by Donald Hall Download Open image “Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.” — Donald Hall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drop of water Language Seems Streams Water Wholeness
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Our words are similar to wells, and those wells can accommodate the most diverse waters: cataracts, drizzles of other times, oceans that were and… — César Calvo Copy Share Image
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for… — Christina Meldrum Copy Share Image
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Empty words are like droplets of rain pattering upon the ground. It is difficult to find a single feature that distinguishes one from another.” — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth.… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“The tree is burning on the autumn noon That builds each year the leaf and bark again. Though frost will strip it raw and… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses, roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs,… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It’s only when… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a single drop of water is so valuable for the very thirsty that he may hesitate to drink it immediately!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image