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“Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.”

Water Taken Shots Fingers Print Ink Juice Fbi Manhattan Lemons Mug Headquarters Lemon Juice

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.”

Wells Littles Water Morning Sun Building Sitting Fingers Bones Shade Cake Afternoon Potters Sketching Old Buildings Chilled

Author:Howard Pyle

“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.”

Thinking Life Hard Hands Young Water Simple Sun Safe Fingers Cups Noticing

Author:Jean Anouilh

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”

May Littles Feelings Body Remember Water Memories Flow Filled Fingers Bones Flesh Cells Streams Touched Joints Sponges

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.”

People Years Firsts Water Drug Six Computer Years Ago Appreciate Doctors Miracle Hot Grateful Fingers Saved Call Me Surgery Optimist Fever Scarlet Six Year Olds Hot Water Antibiotics

Author:Julian Simon

“Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?”

Thinking Men Children Home Water Risk Danger Fame Fingers Sake Bones

Author:Karen Essex

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”

Want Water Fingers Ships Slips Deep Thought

Author:Michelle Williams