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Water Quotes


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


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


"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."


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


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


"I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again."


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


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


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


"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."


"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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!"
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