Wet Quotes - Page 25

• It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.

  Gregory Maguire

  Summer, Flower, Winter

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Confessions Of An Ugly Stepsister: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Running, Wisdom

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.38, Kodansha International

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• Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll.

  Steven Morrissey

  Splits

  "Morrissey: 10 of the best" by Ben Hewitt, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2014.

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• Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

  Jim Carroll

  Play, Lightning, Way

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• Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Names, Sitting Down

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• Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Water, Stuff

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Rising Up, Feet

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

  Carl Sandburg

  Struggle, Flower, Roots

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As long as it is hot, wet and goes down the right way, its fine with me.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Long, Tea, Hot

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• I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

  Gregg Allman

  Play, Hank Williams, Halls

  Interview with Paul Harris, paulharrisonline.blogspot.com. December 12, 1997.

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• Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Umbrella, Throwing, Rainstorms

  "Shelby County v. Holder". Dissenting, United States Supreme Court case, 2013.

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• What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Spring, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.46

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• Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

  Chuck Jones

  Summer, Confused, Fog

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• Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Children, Eye

  "A Raisin in the Sun".

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• For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with super-sensitive antennae, capable of registering immediately the slightest reaction of the fish to the fly.

  Charles Ritz

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.

  Joan Miro

  Fall, Drawing, Color

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• I'm kinda racist... I don't really like dark butts too much... It's rare that I do dark butts. Like really rare... It's like, no darker than me. No darker than me. I love the pool test.... If you can be like 'Yo, baby. I met you in the club. Let's go back to my house. Jump in the pool exactly like you are.'-And you don't come looking better wet than you were before you got in the pool then that's not a good look.

  Yung Berg

  Baby, Dark, House

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• My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

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• One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Mother, Breakup

  "Toni Morrison On Human Bondage And A Post-Racial Age". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2008.

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• I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.

  Kurt Fuller

  Running, Kind, Showers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

  Kenny Rogers

  Naked, Towels, Disappointed

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• Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to be whispered.

  Don DeLillo

  Legs, Want, Heat

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.228, Vintage

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• When those nerf footballs get wet though then they actually do get heavy.

  Mike Goldberg

  Football, Heavy

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• Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mind, India, Flags

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

  Lori Borgman

  Family, Dog, Doors

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