Quotes About Wells

So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

From reveries so airy, from the toilOf dropping buckets into empty wells,And growing old in drawing nothing up.

The camel-breeding nomads' labour was hard and required well-tested skills. They had to know how to exploit their pastures, drive camels from one grazing area to another, treat the animals when they were sick, milk the female camels, cut the wool and so on. Younger camels were trained to perform various tasks and to walk saddled and loaded. The bedouin dug and maintained wells in the desert.

Did you send candy and flowers on Valentine's Day, Wells? It's okay, you know. He was a saint.

But once you start taking money out of my pocket, I got to say something." He spits deliberately. "Your land sets right in the middle of where they need to run them wells. I'm getting wells, Richard here is getting wells. Hell, even Jim Norton is getting wells, with the little spread he has. But until you sign that paper, none of us are going to see a dime." Mack

We've been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

wells were adorned with wreaths, and springs with flowers, for the Fonta - or Fontinalia. On this day a god Fontus or Fons was celebrated (Varr., LL, 6, 22), 'the son-in-law of Volturnus, husband of Juturna' (Arn., 3, 29).

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

In August 2014, the residents of the San Joaquin Valley in drought-plagued California found themselves without water as individual wells

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

Companies using public lands should be required to perform thorough testing on all wells in order to fully ensure water safety.

Troy interjected that murder was unlikely to be one of the many ways in which Wells had offended society.

The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot. That kind of force and that kind of distance are more than enough to break hard rock. Wells will flow faster during lunar high tides.

Today, Israel has no producing oil wells.

I do so dislike H. G. Wells being accompanied by Wagner, don't you Mr. Ford?" … he was forced to acknowledge the aptness of the phrase. Nazism combines a crassly mechanical futurism with the fuss and fume of a tawdry pseudo-Gothic misconception of the past.

she was one of the lights of the world—one of the wells of truth, whose springs are fed by the rains on the eternal hills.

I hate having emotions about reality; I'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

Think springs of water. Think wells and spas and sources. Well-springs in the widest and loveliest sense. Jerusalem, for instance, is a spring of religiosity. One small town in the desert, but the source of the world's three most powerful faiths. It is the capital of Judaism, the scene of Christ's crucifixion and the place from which Mohammed ascended into heaven. Religion seems to bubble from its sands.

People's minds, particularly the minds of children, are like wells—deep wells full of sweet water. And sometimes, when a particular thought is too unpleasant to bear, the person who has that thought will lock it into a heavy box and throw it into that well. He listens for the splash . . . and then the box is gone. Except it is not, of course. Not really.

Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.

Justice Josiah Hoffman wrote the opinion for the supreme court, an opinion that proved every bit as favorable to the South as Riker, Wells, and others had hoped. The court declared that the requirement of a jury trial violated the US Constitution because "the legal rights of the Southern Slaveholder are so clearly defined, as at once to mark him, who in any way impede their exercise, as a violator of the public space.