Lakes Quotes - Page 18

• Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

  Robert Hughes

  Sports, Football, Sea

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.300, Vintage

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• I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Thinking, Utah

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

  Scott Adams

  Coffee, Beavers, Busier

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.451, Penguin

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• . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

  Andrew Lang

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook, With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.

  John Gay

  Fishing, Rivers, Blood

  John Gay (1770). “The works of Mr. John Gay: In four volumes. To which is added an account of the life and writings of the author ...”, p.27

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• I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Mistake, Humor

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• History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I talked about living in the past. There's a whole motif in the book of then and now. And I lived there.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Past, States

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.

  Zhang Zhao

  Children, Perfect, Wife

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• Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

  Billy Collins

  Moon, Night, Light

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• The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Sky, Mind, Should

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• Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

  Richard Bach

  Pain, Reality, Swim

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.143, Random House

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• I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake City, and one of Stephenie Meyer's friends said, 'Make sure you read my friend's book.'

  Nina Dobrev

  Girl, Book, Twilight

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• I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.

  Emo Philips

  Car, Michigan, Lines

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• I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company I had ever seen even on video that had Asian dancers. The Asian community in Hawaii is actually almost as dominant as the Caucasian community. I thought "I can relate to that company because they look like people that I see every day." They weren't all little stick-thin Russian ballerinas.

  Joan Chen

  Swans, People, Dancer

  Source: collider.com

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• The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Ponds, Mercury

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.497, Delphi Classics

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• A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Air, Land, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

  Hillary Clinton

  Law, Cities, Troops

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• In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.

  Aurel Stein

  Night, Years, Rivers

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• I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like the different elements of the city and what the city has to offer and putting it on the screen.

  Morris Chestnut

  New Orleans, Cities, House

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Screen Rant Interview, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

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• People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Animal, Feet

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, White, Impact

  "Native And Rural Communities Face Devastating Post Office Closures" by Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Father, Sitting

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

  Patrick Young

  Groundhog Day, Rainy Day, Sea

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• It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  School, College, Two

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