Behinds Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

“If anyone thinks that I amn't divine He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine But have to drink water and wish…

— James Joyce

“Your divine should not have used water. It just doesn't hold the attention properly. Wine. Or blood, in a pinch. Some liquid that matters.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under…

— George Macdonald

“Water be wine,” I said, not thinking and distracted by the surge of magic. “Tears of the heavens, become fruit of the vine.” I…

— Tessa Gratton

“Water was a wild, capricious substance: nothing solid, nothing permanent, nothing as it appeared.”

— Anthony Doerr

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

— Mark Twain

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes…

— Seneca

“Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a…

— Anthony Burgess

“Only living water satisfy the thirsty soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be…

— Ursula Goodenough

“...the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint…

— John Ruskin