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  • I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
  • The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

    "Marilyn Johnson: The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, And The Perverse Pleasures Of Obituaries" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 21, 2006.
  • Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.

    Hippie   Rocks   People  
    Source: chicago.gopride.com
  • In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

    Children   Reality   Soul  
    Song: Hiding Out, Album: White City: A Novel
  • Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man. A man lives, sort of, well, in jerks. A baby's born or somebody dies and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream. Little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way.

    Baby   Women   Rivers  
    "Fictional character: Ma Joad". "The Grapes of Wrath", 1940.
  • Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.

    People   Support   Trying  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.

    Water   Sound   Skiing  
    "The trees were a deeper green than I imagined, and so tall" by Mike May, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2003.
  • A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

    Strong   Men   Waterfalls  
  • I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.

  • My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

    "Blazing Saddles". www.imdb.com. 1974.
  • Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  • Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

    Morning   Horse   Lakes  
    Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster
  • The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

    Moon   Clouds   Bridges  
  • While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

  • Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.

  • I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.

    Country   Real   Night  
    Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC
  • I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too.

    Firsts   Lucky   Four  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

    Moon   Night   Vegetables  
    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

    Car   Want   Waterfalls  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

    Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.14, Open Road Media
  • A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

  • Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

    Fall   Rose   Mountain  
  • We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth...

    Art   Stars   Spring  
    Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster
  • As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

    Rocks   Wind   Long  
    John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”
  • Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

    Perfect   Water   Path  
  • He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

    Girl   Rocks   Idols  
    Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK
  • When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

  • When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

    Fall   Sunset   Thinking  
    Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black
  • The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

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