Water Quotes

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

I represent a district covering Rockland, Westchester and Bronx counties, all of which are part of the 9 million people that this water is so important for.

My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands.

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.