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"How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along."
"My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse."
"It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source."
"Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes."
"Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water."
"Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster."
"The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people."
"There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."
"Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water."
"Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?"
"I got bath water you could soak in, things I could do with lotion."
"Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled."
"The moon shone like herrings in the water."
"I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze."
"The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged."
"Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters."
"Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail."
"He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search."
"I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't."
"In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese."
