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“There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.”

Firsts Water Lord Car Moon Bird Flying Tunes Adam Peter Rolling Harvest Carols Pipers Harvest Moon

Author:Eleanor Farjeon

“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”

Eye Water Feet Wall Built Twenties Speed Flying Thirty Wild Eyes

Book:Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas

“What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!”

Should Earth Water Imagine Air Becoming Walking Capacity Flying Thinker Swimming Dreamer Imagine That Load Idle Learn To Fly

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.”

World Mean Feelings Water Emotion Bird Reflection Flying Detached Blocked Sticky Bird Flying

Book:This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Source: This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

“Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.”

Want Body Seems Beautiful Joy Water Beauty Millions Bigger Fishes Terror Tiny Flying Decay Jumping Glitter Luminous Gleam Jumping In

Author:Curt Siodmak