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• You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.

  Unknown

  Paint, Jungle

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• Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .

  Pablo Neruda

  House, Sound, Dew

  Pablo Neruda (2007). “100 Love Sonnets”, p.79, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

  Osamu Dazai

  Summer, Dream, Recovery

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Lakes, Tree, Sacred

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• The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.

  Clay Shirky

  Party, Method, Pledge

  "How Willful Ignorance Doomed HealthCare.gov" by Clay Shirky, www.politico.com. November 24, 2013.

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• In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

  Demetri Martin

  Success, America, Yards

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2011

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• There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

  Agnes Martin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

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• Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

  Julie Andrews

  Water, Splashing, Sound

  Julie Andrews (2008). “Home: a memoir of my early years”

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• I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Travel, Disappointment, Taken

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.

  Jack McDevitt

  Moving, Beer, Water

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Bridges, Views

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.

  Freeman Patterson

  Children, Animal, Rocks

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• Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

  Jeannette Walls

  Morning, Horse, Lakes

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Rocks, Idols

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

  Aberjhani

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.

  Harold E. Puthoff

  Sea, Space, Energy

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• He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beautiful, Clouds, Flames

  A.S. Byatt (2011). “Ragnarok: the End of the Gods”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

  Steve Blank

  Trust, Development, Temperature

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

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• Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

  Arthur Lismer

  Moving, Lakes, Lines

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• Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

  Dar Williams

  Hippie, Rocks, People

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

  Madeline Miller

  Movement, Leap, Knows

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

  Unknown

  Energy

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• Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

  Vince Vaughn

  People, Support, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Nature, Fall, Swans

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• Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunset, Differences, Feet

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