#fountain

Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fountain #limits #ocean #original #originality

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#degradation #fountains #great #life #nation

Question for your life: If there were a fountain machine that dispensed destruction instead of soda, would you grab an extra large cup? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#destroy #destruction #destructive #fountain-machine #grab

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#arm #bubbling #came #day #down

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. ↗

— Graham Greene

#connected #course #does #filling #fingers

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#die #fountainhead #life #live #mortality

A film is a petrified fountain of thought. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#film #fountain #petrified #thought

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret! ↗

— David Copperfield

#caused #controversy #discovered #fountain #i

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#baths #conjecture #constituted #diana #fountain

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#forth #fountain #returns #sends #which