Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Jung

...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

Darren Criss

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.

Ovid

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

John Milton

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

John Milton

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

Marcel Proust

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.

Kurt Cobain

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

Terry Pratchett

Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

Robert Browning

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.

Aaron Sorkin

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

John Harper

We want to try to get a better understanding of the lakes and their relation to the groundwater.

Charlaine Harris

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.

Benjamin Millepied

Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Thomas Friedman

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Bob Balaban

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Bart Stupak

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

Rick Ott

Lakes with low populations use secondary sites. That is how they maintain their small populations.

Nick Nuttall

Lakes are the lifeblood of millions and millions of Africans,

David Sedaris

I see you that have a little swimming mouse

Jane Asher

I swim more or less every day.

Charles Spurgeon

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Alan Rickman

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Cheryl Hines

I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.

Brian May

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

Brandon Cruz

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

Barbara Kingsolver

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

Brian Tracy

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be.