Water Quotes
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.
How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.
I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands
Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man
I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.
It is fun to think about your pet moonlighting as a water delivery man, or a bouncer at a bar. Thinking about your dog out in the world, instead of laying on your bed when you leave, is really fun.
For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.
I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.
Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.
The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.
An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.
After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.
The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.
The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.
When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.
There is a way to open up the chakras, there is a mystical way. But if you do that, you'll get yourself into very hot water, and it's ultimately slower.
You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all.
To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.
When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.
We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.
Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
I'd like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what's normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big impact.
Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.