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Last updated on October 18, 2024.
The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.
If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.
We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.
When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.
Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.
When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it!
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.
The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
But when I reached the depths,
I became very still.
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.
The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, "YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.
One of my oldest friends has a cottage on Smoke Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park, and it's one of my favorite places in the world.
I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.
Most of my family is still active in the Mormon Church. They live in Utah and Provo and Orem and Salt Lake City.
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
When I got to Salt Lake City, in the summer of 2010 - I know it's a cliche, but man, it's the truth: I was just a kid.
I got rid of my place in L.A. I had this beautiful condo in Taluca Lake, but I was like, 'Why am I paying for this when I'm all over?'
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness, the texture.
I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
My golf game's gone off so much that when I went fishing a couple of weeks ago my first cast missed the lake.
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
Growing up, some of my best memories are visiting my grandparents who had a house on a lake not too far from Waukesha.
I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.
I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists.
The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky.
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and ready for action.
The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.
My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.
I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers.
Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.
