“I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.” PeopleHeartWaterRocksMarkDrippingDrop Of WaterDripping Water Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.” KnowsHumansFormWaterAchievementMarkUniversityProfessorsUniversity Professors Author:Ken Robinson
“I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.” WritingLooksWaterWorryWrittenTroubleSkyPaperMarkAdversityDown AndBlowBeachSandTidesShellsYardsFragmentsVaultsKneeling Author:Arthur Gordon Webster
“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.” MenWellsKindLittlesDifferentStoriesUseBodyLife IsFatherWaterWhitePoorRichCuttingWrittenDogMarkBonesFleshHipsRanNecksReliefReachingPensVillageChestsScarBlankRopePillowWhipsSpineCottonRich ManPoor ManCollarsPremiumButtocks Author:Aravind Adiga
“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsSometimesFilmStuffWaterChurchCompanyComedyDirectorsMarkFloodInsurance CompaniesPomposity Author:Billy Connolly
“Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.” MenEarthWaterAirHe ManFameMarkSmokeObtainingFoamCanopy Author:Dante Alighieri
“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.” PoetryLiteratureSpeakWaterPoetMarkSocialismSocialistAudenKipling Author:George Orwell
“And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.” HumanityLiteratureLanguageNationsWaterPerfectBrainGeniusGloryMarkRemainsPracticalsKingdomsSpiteCivilizedStomachIrelandClosetsGadgetsEnglish LiteratureCivilized Nations Author:James Joyce
“I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.” ThinkingWayArtFactsWaterRightsMovementProudSummerMarkCivil RightsMarchCivil Rights Movement Author:Charlton Heston
“Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.” IfsWaterSeaOceanHundredMarkSevenGlassesLatterMoleculesIf Then Author:Lord Kelvin