Quotations About / On: WATER

  • 11.
    The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
    (George Orwell (1903-1950), British author. The Road to Wigan Pier, ch. 11 (1937).)
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  • 12.
    A ship's not a ship to me 'til she gets her teeth into green water.
    (John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. Evans (Walter Sande), Corvette K-225 (1943).)
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  • 13.
    Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. "Of Chastity," pt. 1, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1892, trans. 1961).)
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  • 14.
    I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
    (Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher), The Player, at a script conference (1992). A reference to Jesus' miracle at Cana. Based On Tolkin's Novel.)
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  • 15.
    If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.
    (Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842-1911), U.S. chemist and educator. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt (1912). Written in the 1870s to a woman student whom she was educating through correspondence courses. Richards had been the first woman to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).)
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  • 16.
    It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 70, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 55, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Penguin Books (1978). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, "On Chastity," (1883).)
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  • 17.
    Get some onions, they will make your eyes water.
    (Morrie Ryskind, U.S. screenwriter, Robert Florey, and Joseph Santley. Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx), The Cocoanuts, responding to a guest's request for "ice water," (1929). Ryskind adapted this film from original Broadway play by George Kaufman.)
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  • 18.
    Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering- pot and pruning-knife.
    (Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), U.S. author, literary critic, journalist. quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli, p. 289, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston (1898).)
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  • 19.
    If you're so helpless you can't find the water you've no business in it.
    (Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray), Doctor X, on the beach with the reporter (1932). Based on a play by Howard W. Comstock and Allen C. Miller.)
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  • 20.
    A woman is like a teabag—only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
    (Nancy Reagan (b. 1923), U.S. first lady. Quoted in Observer (London, March 29, 1981).)
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