#water

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#ankle #around #find #neck #people

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#different #different names #just #lakes #names

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#big #big thing #day #drink #get

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deal #drawings #finish #first #great

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#covered #earth #headquarters #other #surface

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#american dream #assassination #car #dream #dreams

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#explorer #hunter #i #i am #treasure

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#governing #history #keepers #law #more

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#acoustic guitar #did #first #good #good time

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#being #believe #book #crush #different