Lakes Quotes - Page 31

• When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

  Laini Taylor

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Perfect

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• Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Autumn, Dancing

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• I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.

  James Lee

  Dream, Home, Dark

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• I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.

  Ernesto Bertarelli

  Kids, Wife, Sailing

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• When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.

  Tony D'Souza

  Summer, Grateful, Europe

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• Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Morning, Husband, Firsts

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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• Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

  Ogden Nash

  Kings, Sorry, Winter

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• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Clouds, Sky, Meditation

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• In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Order, America

  "On Fredrick the Great" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1842.

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• My wife wonders why all women do not seek anglers for husbands. She has come in contact with many in her life with me and she claims that they all have a sweetness in their nature which others lack.

  Ray Bergman

  Husband, Sea, Fishing

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Sea, Fishing

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.331

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• I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

  Martial

  Water, Noble, Shells

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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Swimming, Sea, Fishing

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

  John Cheever

  Elderly, Sea, Fishing

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• There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Perfect, Tree, Tears

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.272, UPNE

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• There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

  Oliver Herford

  Taken, Sea, Fishing

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.36, BookRix

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.

  Marilyn Manson

  Danger, Dangerous, Manson

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• Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

  Bob Dylan

  Flower, Fighting, Sea

  'Desolation Row' (1965 song)

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Agriculture, Effort

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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• The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!

  George Pope Morris

  Heart, Hands, Land

  George Pope Morris, Horace Binney Wallace, Maria Edgeworth (1860). “Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.68

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• If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

  Chanakya

  Elephants, Lust, Liquid

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• 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.

  Bart Stupak

  Would Be, Locks, Natural

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