Wetness Quotes

• From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Running, Hurt, Fire

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Shadow And Light Source Both”

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• No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

  Shannon Hale

  Comfort, Cry

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.93, A&C Black

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• Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water
  high clouds
  to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched,
  a messenger of blessed rain,
  but this was as dry as hell must be.
  My distraught perception refused
  to believe it, because of the insane
  suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit,
  and how casually it came
  to murder my child.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Children, Rain, Believe

  "The First Long Range Artillery Fire On Leningrad". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1993.

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• By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, School, Average

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• Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

  Ben Stiller

  Essence, Moisture, Essence Of Beauty

  "Zoolander". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Summer, Rain, Heart

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• The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
  The wet centre is bottomless.

  Seamus Heaney

  Might, Centre, Wet

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001”, p.25, Macmillan

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• When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

  Emo Philips

  Kids, Men, Rubber

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• Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

  Jim Carroll

  Dream, Light, Color

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• This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.

  Denis Johnson

  Distance, Dust, Sea

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• Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Rain, Envy, Storm

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.75, Penguin

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• I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

  Douglas Lockwood

  Ocean, Power, Thinking

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• Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.

  John French Sloan

  Thinking, Color, Sea

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• She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip. “Stay,” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you.

  Maya Banks

  Baby, Voice, Tears

  Maya Banks (2010). “The Darkest Hour”, p.109, Penguin

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• How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Light, Air, Water

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• Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for you - I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours - the kisses - the hotness - the wetness - all melting together - the being held so tight that it hurts - the strangle and the struggle.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Hurt, Crazy, Struggle

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• Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine. "Mine," he repeated when she sighed heavily. "No one else's." Silence. Only the warm wetness of her tears dampening his shirt. It broke his heart.

  Cindy Gerard

  Heart, Choices, Silence

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• This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.

  Abbi Glines

  Memories, Confused, Grandma

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• Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Spring, Rain, Sea

  Anne Rivers Siddons (2007). “House Next Door”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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