Rising Water Lifts All Boats Quotes & Sayings

Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that. — Bill Watterson

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. — John Williams

The structure echoed the greatest cathedrals of Earth and Mars, rising up through empty air and giving both thrust-gravity stability and glory to God. — James S.A. Corey

Why was it, she sometimes wondered, that in dreams we can't do the simplest things? Like a crying puppy is standing on some broken glass and you want to pick it up and brush the shards off its pads but you can't because you're balancing a ball on your head. Or you're driving and there's this old guy on crutches and you go, to Mr. Feder, your Driver's Ed teacher, Should I swerve? And he's like, Uh, probably. But then you hear this big clunk and Feder makes a negative mark in his book. — George Saunders

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems. — Rony Abovitz

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results. — David Grubbs

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me. — John Milius

It is often little things that are hardest to stand. — C.S. Lewis