Quotes with ice-water

Quotes 141 till 160 of 256.

  • J.M. Coetzee Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.
    Source:  1992
    J.M. Coetzee
    South African-born Australian novelist (1940 - )
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  • W. C. Fields Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bill Keller People crave trustworthy information about the world we live in. Some people want it because it is essential to the way they make a living. Some want it because they regard being well-informed as a condition of good citizenship. Some want it because they want something to exchange over dinner tables and water coolers.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
    Source: LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bee Wilson Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
    Eva Figes
     
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  • Abigail Van Buren Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Barten Holyday River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.
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  • Buzz Aldrin Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bobby Bragan Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
    Bobby Bragan
     
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Sir William Osler Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Buffalo Bill Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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