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Her only weak part, they figured, was a fear of the desert, perhaps a fear of drying in the scorching sun, perhaps a lack of water to drink. — J.M.K. Walkow

Once I threw a water bottle from the stage into the audience, and it hit Tony Bennett in the head. It was a special moment for me. — Marilyn Manson

He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life. — Marilynne Robinson

Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond. — Mira Grant

I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.' And there it was, plain as a glass of water, the truth, which he had never admitted to himself. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."
-- Nenya, The Water Warrior — Mili Fay

Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was not refreshment, but mortal chill. — Diana Gabaldon

The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness. — John Hawkes

I learned, whatever you hung from my earlobes or out on my back, I was insoluble, like same in water. Stir me up, I always rest on the bottom — Janet Fitch

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken. — Robert Frost

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. — Winston Churchill

As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice. — Markus Zusak

Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality. — Jason Goodwin

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not. — Irena Sendler

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
inspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey

I think we all remember where we were when Rush Hour hit the water. That was an important day. — Janeane Garofalo

The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back. — Liz Kessler

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water. — Emraan Hashmi

The sky was full of stars, and the stars reflected on the water like millions of tiny memories, distorted by the ripples and the waves. — Shawn Mihalik

My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk. — Fernando Pessoa

The wait deep water was so cold I imagined I'd be singing soprano for the rest of the week. — Rick Riordan

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water. — Kelly Preston

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was 'excuse me'. — Bauvard

She was pretty in the way water is tasty: it does the job, but lacks pizzazz.
(Skye on Charlie) — Lisi Harrison

When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water. — Budd Schulberg

And there she was, sitting in the river with the water up to her neck. The — Walter R. Brooks

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. — Lowell Thomas

Hui Shi was set on using the calabash to hold water, never thinking that he could use water to hold the calabash. — Tsai Chih Chung

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. — Josh Ritter

She was as sturdily made as a captain's chair, yet drew water with graceful wrists and ran dancing across the rutted road on curved white ankles. — Louise Erdrich

He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer. — Kate Atkinson

The water was still. The mountains moved. — Avijeet Das

Her skin was more luminous than the moon, her eyes wider than the sky, deeper than the water, darker than the night. — Patrick Rothfuss

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could. — Barbara Kingsolver

Either the kid was naturally hyper or he was hopped up on enough caffeine to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. — Rick Riordan

Later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett

The road made wet by the water of August
shines like it was cut in full moonlight — Pablo Neruda

Myself," said the drone sniffily, "I have never been able to see what virtue there could be in something that was eighty percent water. — Iain M. Banks

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all. — Lucy Connors

It was a machine-gun orgasm, dark chocolate, spring water in the desert, a hallelujah chorus and the cavelry coming to the rescue all at once. — Christopher Moore

The water was a magical mirror lying beneath a cloudless sky. — Corina Bomann

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. — John Green

I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing — Pieter Van Den Hoogenband

Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water. — Anita Diamant

The decision about what to do next was as difficult to grasp as the water swirling around my feet. — Renee Conoulty

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer! — Robert Bolt

The more time she spent with Tristen, the deeper she was sinking into his darkness. She was drowning in his wild theories, barely treading the water. — LeeAnn Whitaker

The water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them. — Anne Ursu

There was no moon, no stars, but even the darkest of nights steals light from somewhere. — Kate Thompson

The strangest part of the dream,' said Pelletier, 'was the water was alive. — Roberto Bolano

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze. — Michael Chabon

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me. — D.L. Moody

Like a drop of ink in water, the urge rushed to the surface and then slowly spread out and thinned until I was made slightly darker by it. — Brielle A. Marino

Her heart slipped out of its life jacket and paddled toward the deep end of stupid, where the water was way over its head — Samanthe Beck

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. — Frederick Marryat

I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over. — Nyrae Dawn

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water. — Piers Anthony

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick. — Johnny Weissmuller

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old. — Robert Mondavi

I was in the deep water. It was dark and unclear and the taste of the salt was in my mouth. — Raymond Chandler

It was as if the bones and veins were working their way to the surface; as if the skin were water receding to expose shapes at the bottom of a harbor. — Jonathan Franzen

What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye. THE — Alice Hoffman

He had come to the conclusion that, as the earth consisted of land and water, so human life was made up of eatings and beatings. — Rabindranath Tagore

One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water. — Greg Benson

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. — John Bunyan

By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.
The water was so cold that it stopped time. — Rachel Sharp

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher? — Horace

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot. — Nicholas Sparks

Each Well was linked to one of the five elements: Aether, Earth, Water, Wind, or Fire. — Susan Dennard

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water. — Banana Yoshimoto

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water. — Margaret Atwood

The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water. — Joe Hill

Pop, pop, sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood. — Hans Christian Andersen

The closet was also not cleaned during the journey and there was no water in the water tank. — Mahatma Gandhi

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water. — Shannon Hale

You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us — Saleem Sharma

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset. — Stephen King

It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. — Esther Williams

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that. — Michael Moriarty

Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah? And when he had struck the water, v the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went — Anonymous

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. — Pat Conroy

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water. — Warren Sapp

Reality was being alone and afraid. Reality was standing underneath a pounding spray of hot water but knowing I'd never really be clean. The — Skye Warren

The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured — Joan Aiken

I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water. — Anne Hathaway

tube or 2 of these water purification tablets at your home or in your car. If there was ever a shortage or damage to the city supply, you would — Jon Woodward

It was midsummer, but fresh water from the gasping sprinklers made the lawn glitter like spring. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing. — Cassandra Clare

The three agents were hard guys, the youngest of them in his twenties, a man whose IQ was so low I figured they had to water him twice a day. — Terry Hayes

Their relation was that of the sand and water, they touch, they meet, they flirt but they never mingle together. — Ahdaf Soueif

The moment I stopped being angry,the moment the silence filled my ears like water, was the moment I wanted to die,too. — Kristin Halbrook

At that instant I became a blooming lotus flower. The water in which I flourished was a single teardrop from Nyx. — P.C. Cast

Hell," he said. "Just when it was getting interesting, too." And he leaped into the water after his friend. — Cassandra Clare

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches. — Walter De La Mare

The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything ... in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea. — Arthur Gordon

Coconut water is just the best for you; it's always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I've been drinking it. — Adriana Lima

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented ... and that was just the drinking water. — Evan Sayet

And her laughter was like the wind, the water, and a thousand songbirds singing together. — Gerald Morris