Quotes About Water

When I was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory back in the early '80s is when I first got the idea. The Super Soaker was based on some engineering principles that I applied. I was actually working on another invention which was a heat pump that would use water as a working fluid instead of Freon.

This is America, but the way that the people of Flint are being treated with this water crisis is like a third-world country.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

It is so important to stay hydrated when you fly.

I'm a strong follower of hydrotherapy.

My hair is extremely dry and fragile, so moisture is key. I love black castor oil, shea butter, and lots of water.

I'm afraid of open bodies of water. I was in a glass-bottomed boat that broke a long time ago, so I've always been kind of freaked out.

I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.

A silly lilting wavering tune came from before her in the dusk - a tune in which major notes with their cheerful insistence wavered and melted into minor sounds, as, beneath a bridge, the high lights on dark waters melt and waver and disappear into black depths.

Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.

The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leathery covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hands like a fish.

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Flesh that had cried in ecstasy, eyes that had burned him with their desire, the voice that had charmed him because it played no tricks of subtle control—all gone, back into the water and the sand.

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come, Tuek said. Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we've the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.

It's a beautiful morning, Sire, the guard said Yes, it is. The Duke nodded, thinking: Perhaps this planet could grow on one. Perhaps it could ba a good home for my son. Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping with them strange scythe-like devices--dew gatherers. Water so precious here that even the dew must be collected. And it could be a hideous place, the Duke thought.

Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit." She

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists.

Before Jessica could answer, Chani said: "It is not possible that you have tasted the blessed water. You are outworlder and unprivileged.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: "You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

She hated the water then, inspired by the worm's fear. Water, once the spirit-soul of Arrakis, had become a poison. Water brought pestilence. Only the desert was clean.

With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.