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

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

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

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

News is history shot on the wing.

Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.

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

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

St Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

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!

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.