Quotes: Water

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we’re living in. You know this – the movie lives in this – it’s centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

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