Terry Pratchett
Author
"You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top."
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Ponds
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Claude Monet
Painter
"All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business."
Johnny Cash
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back."
Saul Bellow
Novelist
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."
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"Swim out of your little pond."
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"You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath."
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"Old pond, frog jumps in - plop."
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"Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?"
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"I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud."
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"[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond."
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"If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters."
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"While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless."
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"Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone."
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"Old pond, leap-splash - a frog."
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"Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond."
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"Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!"
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"You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being."
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"The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death."
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"Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous."
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"The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound."
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"Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance."
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"Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail."
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"The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube."
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"Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond."
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