Canals Quotes

• Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Baby, Military

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• When the blind lead the blind, they all fall in the canal.

  Tony Hancock

  Fall, Blind

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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Venice, Mind

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.422

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• Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Rivers, Levels

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.173, VM eBooks

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• We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Mean, Science

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• People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, People, Feelings

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.217

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

  Gerrit Smith

  Construction, New Roads, Rail

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• I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Doe, Goes On

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 24 Mar. 1911

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• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Opportunity, Men

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• The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Numbers, Succeed, Chemicals

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

  Mark Tobey

  Believe, Meditation, Serenity

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• Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

  Paul Samuelson

  Railroads, Stories, Internet

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• One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Memories, Men, Littles

  "Constrained Attitudes".

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

  Ivan Pavlov

  World, Body, Passing

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• My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

  Will Arnett

  Fall, Independent, Broken

  "The Will Arnett Interview". Television Without Pity, 2005.

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• The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

  Robert Barany

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Deviation

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

  Jessica Savitch

  Important Events, Panama Canal, Months

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

  Al Goldstein

  Sex, Roots, Married

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• Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, War, Land

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Cutting, Order, Connections

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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