Quotes on Water

Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

Author: Christopher Atkins

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Author: Margaret Atwood

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.

Author: Robert Barany

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

I understand that NASA reported that there's new evidence of water on Mars. I'm here to report that we still don't have any evidence of affordable gasoline in Michigan.

Author: David Bonior

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Author: David Bowie

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

Author: Art Buchwald

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

Author: Matt Cameron

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Author: Lewis Carroll

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Author: Nicolas Chamfort

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Author: Teilhard Chardin

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Author: Edwin Cole

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Author: Jerry Costello

I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.

Author: Jon Crosby

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.

Author: William Falconer

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Author: W. Fields

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Author: Edward Fitzgerald

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.

Author: Edward Fitzgerald

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Author: F. Fitzgerald

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Author: Gene Fowler

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Author: Diane Furstenberg

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

Author: Macy Gray

In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful.

Author: Steve Guttenberg

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

Author: Lee Haney

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

Author: Lawrence Hargrave

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

Author: George Harrison

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Author: Francis Head

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Author: Napoleon Hill

It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.

Author: John Huston

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

Author: Jamelia

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."

Author: Lyndon Johnson

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

Author: Lynn Johnston

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

Author: Ric Keller

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Author: Nastassja Kinski

Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

Author: Edward Koch

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

Author: Stan Laurel

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

Author: Hugh Laurie

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Author: Lucretius

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Author: Nelson Mandela

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

Author: Roger Maris

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water.

Author: Sarah McLachlan

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Author: Michel Montaigne

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

Author: Brad Paisley

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Author: Bill Paxton

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

Author: Jonathan Potter

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.

Author: Kelly Preston

Good words cool more than cold water.

Author: John Ray

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

Author: Keanu Reeves

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!

Author: Cliff Richard

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

Author: M. Shyamalan

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Author: Sophocles

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Author: Joseph Stalin

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

Author: Billy Tauzin

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

Author: Mike Thompson

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

Author: Johnny Weissmuller

I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

Author: Devon Werkheiser

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

Author: Carl Wilson

Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

Author: James Wilson

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

Author: Natalie Wood

Rivers never look back, they always flow forward, shaping their path along the way.

Author: Maya Patel