Liquid Water

Famous quotes containing the words liquid and/or water:

    “Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into moving—vans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

    “Reasoning with a drunkard is like
    Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
    —Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)