“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.” MadeTurnsWaitingDarknessWindRiversBoundsCalmTidesFloodSailAnchors Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
“Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.” WorldInspirationalMadeSoulSelfAttentionVisionThis WorldOceanFlowRiversPaidBurdenMade ItYour SoulStreamsRise Above Author:Rumi
“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.” WritingFirstsMadeBookHelpingHouseEffortColdConsciousRiversImpactCypresses Author:Michael Koryta
“I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.” KnowsMadeSchoolWaterSimpleMorningGrewGrew UpRiversTownsSoccerHappy LifeElectricitySmall TownBathingFetchPlaying SoccerTap Water Author:Ishmael Beah
“Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.” WayMadeEndsPastWaitingRiversVillageAdventurousClimaxSwimmerAdventurous Life Book:I Heard the Owl Call My Name Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name
“The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.” WorldHeartLongMadeCareThreeNationsWonderGreaterPiecesHonestDangerBeatsReflectionEuropeRiversPrejudiceSevenBritishLondonTriumphBridgesKnightsEnglishmenFrenchmenWonder Of The World Author:Joseph Addison