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“In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.”

Giving Long Home Past Fall Three Water Dark Laughing Emotional Scene Swimming Three Times Deep Emotional

Author:Brie Larson

“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.”

Light Remember Faces Artist Fall Water Can Do Rooms Objects Flow Paint Candlelight

Author:Janet Fitch

“When you meditate make sure you stay awake. If you are falling asleep get up and splash some water on yourself or sleep until you are refreshed.”

Ifs Fall Water Sleep Get Up Awake Falling Asleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I'm approaching a water jump, with dozens of photographers waiting for me to fall in, and hundreds of spectators wondering what's going to happen next, the horse is just about the only one who doesn't know I am Royal!”

Knows Happens Fall Next Waiting Water Wonder Horse Photographer Dozen Royal Spectators

Author:Anne, Princess Royal

“Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.”

Want Action Used Fall Water Air Wind Driven Instance Germany Sail Holland Velocity Windmills Falling Water

Book:Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Source: Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

“...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.”

Fall Water Sky Rocks Mountain Rivers Luck Clouds Good Work Thunder Cliffs Good Luck Waterfalls Descending Raindrops Falling Water

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.”

Looks Fall Water Half Degrees Computer Projects Models Productions Disaster Nine Australia Darling Habitat Food Production Vertebrates Disaster Movie

Author:Jeff Goodell

“Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to regain their feet and made it to the water. But many of them never made it and were left behind, their feet drumming in blinding pain on the overheated pavements amidst the rubble, until there came one last convulsing shudder from the smoking 'thing' on the ground, and then no further movement.”

Men Children Made Pain Lasts Fall Left Water Behinds Feet Movement Made It Ran Smoking Rolling Left Behind Men Women Stumbling Pavement Drumming Rubble Tripping Rolling Over

Author:Martin Caidin

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”

Source: 13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers

“I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.”

I Can Joy Fall Water Grace Share Movement Rain Flow Tables Blessed Paradise Cycles Bless

Author:Ann Voskamp

“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.”

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“[Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:] In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.”

Way Ends Fall Water Levels Sweet Music Is Lows Notes Streams Pool Rapids Margins Refined Whispering Tranquil Moss Trill

Author:John Muir

“If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.”

Ifs May Lying Dies Fall Water Fire Feet Destined

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.”

Feels Made Together Fall Water Yellow Unattainable Soda Sherry Troubled Waters

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”

Fall Water Poverty Sun Fortune Ice Rays

Author:Ihara Saikaku

“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.”

Light Earth Fall Water Hours Keys Species Wave Flats Gravity Minors Belly Harbors Caress Rush Hour

Book:The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

“The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.”

Source: Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings

“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.”

Fall Water Sea Sky Rivers Sight Depth Fishes Currents Boat Instant Streams Visible Lakes Fishing Silver Flash Lightning Rainbow Jewels Gleam Dainty

Author:John Buchan

“the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water”

Fall Water Fine Glasses Champagne Eros Intoxicated

Book:T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.”

World Song Fall Water Share Bird Luxury Chiefs Hills Retirement Echoes Boast Glare

Author:William Cowper

“In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.”

Thinking Way Giving May States Fall Water Cutting Policy Rivers Filled Wave Weather Boat Foul Rise And Fall

Author:John Selden

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”

Fall Water Dark White Behinds Fool Quiet Silent Woods Forests Leafs Lap Ants Polished Deserted Harbour

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.”

Ifs Way Home Would Be Fall Water Wonder Amount Travel Unnecessary Cliffs Wrong Way Niagara Niagara Falls

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”

Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)

“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.”

Needs Wells Use Able Fall Enjoy Sides Water Common Quality Tree Products Protect Species Woods Common Sense Harvest Water Quality

Author:John Hancock

“Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.”

Real Action Moving Fall Found Water Sweet Pure Firm Spinning Bicycle Harmonious Stagnation Flowing Water Spinning Tops

Author:Anna Brackett

“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”

Life Sometimes Fall Force Water Sun Balls Depth Casts Shooting Thrown Rays Fountain Up And Down Catching Ups & Downs Vicissitudes Gilded Shooting Up

Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.”

Men Doe Fall Water Sin Tree He Man Holy Possession Shoulders Baths Holy Water

Author:Ramakrishna

“The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.”

Men God Earth Fall Water Sun Five Air He Man Ought Ill Creator Servant Servant Of God

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.”

“The only reason I started swimming was for water safety. Then, once I started falling in love with sports, I got more comfortable with it.”

Reason Fall Sports Water Comfortable Safety Falling In Love Swimming Water Safety

Author:Michael Phelps

“I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.”

Ifs World Way Want Mind Persons Matter Able Fall Felt Easy Sports Goal Water My Own Comfortable Falling In Love Focused My Way My Own World Goal Oriented

Author:Michael Phelps

“To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of their grace and make it flourish more; this may fill their hearts with joy till they run over.”

Knows Heart May Matter Running Joy Fall Water Hurt Religious Grace Comfort Blessing All Things Crosses Roots Showers Affliction Godly Assured Withering

Book:All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

Source: All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

“Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and falls as the leaf-- if not by action (the means to which lie in another's power), yet in any case by study and research; and since it is not granted us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.”

Ifs Mean Long Action Lying Fall Water Cases Study Research Strive Granted Leafs Memorial Posterity Transmit

Author:Pliny the Younger

“The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.”

Funny Fall Courses Water Comedy Swimming

Author:Arthur Smith

“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!”

May Happens Beautiful Fall Water Born Pure Rain Dirty Mud Lilies Ponds Water Lily

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan