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Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. — Nicolas Roeg

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin — Donnie McClurkin

Marty used to tell her she had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across her features like reflections on a still pond. — Jojo Moyes

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow. — Beth Orton

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. — Edith Sitwell

A clean pond is more useful than a dirty ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Listening to intuition is similar to watching wind wiggle a pond. Allow the ripples to move you where you need to be. — Soul Dancer

What did you think of him?" Cade asked.
"Give me some credit," Zach said. "Guy's more full of shit than a duck pond. — Christopher Farnsworth

Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain. — Emma Cameron

Show me a woman with a subscription to a bridal magazine and I'll show you someone who doesn't even have a boyfriend. — Mimi Pond

Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you. — Debasish Mridha

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters. — Prashant Iyengar

Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air — Katie McGarry

A pond with one fish is better than an ocean with none. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A pond full of information can sometimes be less useful than a cup full of insight — Gyan Nagpal

I can't even find a pond small enough
to drown in without being ostentatious — Frank O'Hara

Amy: Pond and her boys ... my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band. — Simon Nye

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars. — Katherine Applegate

To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder. — Jane Jacobs

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond. — Leonard Lauder

Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon. — Edward Abbey

He would have chucked her back into the pond otherwise. Bad fish, he didn't do them young. He was a fucking deviant, not a monster. — V. Theia

To me she looked like a lily, an innocence floating in the pond! — Avijeet Das

I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence. — Tracy Morgan

In the mind of the Indian public, journalists currently occupy a position of respect somewhere between pond scum and Ebola virus. — Sidin Vadukut

It is like trying to describe the ocean to a fish in a pond. It has no concept of what it is. — Brett Jones

Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles. — Francine Rivers

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold. — Wendell Berry

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James

This fool he promised me is like to be my own reflection in a pond. — George R R Martin

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash. — Jeanne Phillips

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was. — Claude Monet

Without him in my life I'm a frozen pond reflecting the daylight but never absorbing its heat. — Petra F. Bagnardi

Who have not led the holy life
nor riches won while young,
they linger on as aged cranes
around a fished-out pond. — Gautama Buddha

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. — Henry Adams

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes. — Barbara Kingsolver

The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad! — Kenneth Grahame

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance — Rumi

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond. — Stacy Keibler

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone. — Chris Colfer

God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound. — Matsuo Basho

Stared into my eyes as if searching for a coin she had dropped into a shallow pond. — Haruki Murakami

I would rather be a shark in a small pond with small fishis then a shark with bigger sharks then you — Beto Jimenez

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it. — Henry David Thoreau

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! — Dana Gould

Fish that boast in a pond should not boast in the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over ... — Sarah Dessen

If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is. — Simone Pond

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau

It's been much harder to forgive myself. My mistake was like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripple effect has impacted everyone I love. — Heather Blanton

To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond. — Ruskin Bond

The running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort? — Mimi Pond

Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a man whose hair is on fire seeks a pond. — Ramakrishna

But you want a placid pond, a glassy surface to reflect your own casual desires and nothing more. You will never fathom the depths of my savage ocean. — Sherri Gaillard

Godless as I am, I pray she's got away with it. It's like ripples in a pond, isn't it? It doesn't stop in one place. — Elizabeth Wein

And if you hear a frog jump into the pond with a flounce like a stone thrown in, be sure you run and tell me, because it is a sign of rain. — Thomas Hardy

The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. — Natalie Babbitt

I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond. — Stephen King

Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it. — L.M. Montgomery

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond! — S.A.R.K.

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. — Burt Shavitz

Love, we are a small pond. — Maxine Kumin

Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
Bracewell: What?
Amy: Hurts, doesn't it? But kind of a good hurt. — Mark Gatiss

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond. — Victoria Beckham

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. — Elizabeth George Speare

She had the world's worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond. — Jojo Moyes

my life is a pond filled with stones - tossed and rippled by children at play — Tshombe Sekou

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. — Aldous Huxley

As well to clutch at the moon's reflection in a still midnight pond as to seek a grip on that bright mind. — Robin Hobb

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change. — Joel A. Barker

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute. — Gene Hackman

Like a lotus plunging to the surface of a pond to embrace the light from its muddy darkness, truth always rises with time. — Suzy Kassem

a willow tree was weeping from the heavy rain, a coy pond nearly overflowing. — Marissa Meyer

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond? — Lisi Harrison

Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die. — Behdad Sami

As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. — Craig Brown

From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first. — A.A. Milne

I mistook stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky. — Andrzej Sapkowski

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top. — Terry Pratchett

In the same way a pebble dropped on a quiet pond sends ripples far out from itself, — Leigh Brill

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush. — Greta Salpeter

How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes. — Mimi Pond

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatsoever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. — Osho

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey

Enki kisses my ear. He turns my head until I taste just the corner of his mouth. I am crystal clear, I am a pond, I am a light. I am nothing at all. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous. — Steven Wright

The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond. — Sun Yung Shin

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

She pictures love as a pond to be stepped into, swum around in, and then climbed out of and toweled off before getting too chilly. — Jessica Shattuck

Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below. — Dean Koontz

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock. — Jodi Picoult

I've also been chased by a swan over by the pond one time. That's why I don't go there anymore. — Cara Dee

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches. — Nick Lowe

Cowards drown in a pond. The extraordinary flourish in the middle of the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance. — Matsuo Basho

They're having a clam-bake. They're baking my clams.
They're baking the clams pried from my steaming pond. — Mark Levine

Rin slept inside the oak's thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself. — Shannon Hale