This Is Water Quotes

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.

The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons

Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.

the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

I try to eat healthy all the time. I don't eat takeaways. I drink mostly water or coconut water.

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth.

You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.

The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

Our bodies are molded rivers.

A whale out of water is over-run by ants.

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

I prefer my water in wine form.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.