Quotes About Water

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.

Titan has no liquid water on its surface, and any liquid water beneath its surface is inaccessible to us, as far as we know. It has hydrocarbon lakes, but we don't know of any organisms that could live in those, not at the temperatures that we find on Titan. Any reference to possible life in lakes on the surface of Titan is pure speculation.

The temperatures required for caramelization and browning almost always far exceed the boiling point of water. So the presence of water on the surface of a food, or on the bottom of a pan, is a signal that browning can't yet occur.

You're fishing, Detective. Problem is you've got a line in the water, but you got no bait on your hook.

into neutral and scanned the surface of the water for a conical-shaped shadow, his red-and-white buoy.

and leaping back onto the pool's edge, beating most of the displaced water. My friends shook their heads, unimpressed

I myself, however, could never resist the temptation to read raisin paste for wine in the story of the Miracle of Cana. "When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made raisin paste ... he said unto the bridegroom, 'Every man doth at the beginning doth set forth good raisin paste, and when men have well drunk [eaten? the text is no doubt corrupt], then that which is worse, but thou hast kept the good raisin paste until now.

Onions die quietly, Cabbages shed no blood; All plants forgive: By the waters that comprise them They wash man's hands And let him walk away.

she somehow felt that she and Strike were pointlessly searching rockpools, while yards away the great white slid away, untouchable, into dark water.

Til shade is gone, til water is gone Into the shadow with teeth bared Screaming defiance with the last breath To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

FIRST DIP, THIRD NIP We went out on the lake and, after his first dip in the water, I noticed the mole on his chest had reacted to the cold. Triple nipple is a deal breaker. —Jillian

As a matter of fact, with heating, you can coax more than two pounds (5 cups!) of sugar to dissolve in a single cup of water.

The best way I've found to freshen up a loaf of French bread is to dampen it slightly with a spritz of water and put it in a 350ºF toaster oven for two minutes.

The name "water filter" is misleading. The word filtered literally means only that the water has passed through a medium containing tiny holes or fine passageways that screen out suspended particles. When

The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. Dear God, I said. I must go back at once.

She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was so accustomed to his step, to his bulk, that it took a moment to notice his face; and when she did . . . It was, she thought, rather like the moment it took to realize one had cut one's finger as one stared dumbly at the first drop of blood on the knife-blade. You know it is going to hurt quite a lot in a minute.

Campaigns are a great bore; they are mostly about either finding enough water for your company, or being up to your knees in mud and all the food's gone bad. Battles are blessedly brief; but you're sick with terror before, blind with panic during, and miserable with horror by the results, when you have to bury your friends, or listen to them scream.

He lowered the goblet, and looked into it. The black water shifted as his hand trembled, and the surface glittered like the facets of polished stone. The noise of the water as it touched the sides was like the distant cries of the imprisoned.

the past is water under the bridge and the future is a distant sun on the horizon of your imagination. The most important moment is now. Learn to live in it and savor it fully.

He stared at the clear spring water, and wondered why he had brought Megan to Madron Well. The truth chuckled and bubbled out from underneath the rock.

Someone you saw Stretched sleeping on the sand. Five withered violets Cradled in his hand. His dreams are so loud Calling in your ear. The yellow snake coils from the water And all is refreshed far and near.

As far as I'm concerned, taking a bath is sort of like drowning, with soap.

if you don't flush out the pipes, they'll run brown.

Sometimes roused by desires (say, the trip to Tunisia), but they're desires of before --somehow anachronistic; they come from another shore , another country, the country of before.--Today it is a flat, dreary country--virtually without water--and paltry.