James Joyce Quotes, Mother Quotes, Water Quotes

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

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A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

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Women's weapons, water-drops.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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In order to see a fish you must watch the water

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.

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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

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People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners

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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

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I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

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The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.

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