Water Steps Fountain Quotes & Sayings

It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be. — Antwone Fisher

I can't say that exhaustive research and reporting will guarantee a great story, but I've never been able to pull one off without it. — Deborah Blum

For a few seconds I stood there in a strange, dim place. Where the things I could see didn't exist. Where the invisible did. — Haruki Murakami

Before I opened my computer in the parking lot today, I relived one of my favorite memories. It's the one with Woody and me sitting on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum after it's closed. We're watching people parade out of the museum in summer shorts and sandals. The trees to the south are planted in parallel lines. The water in the fountain shoots up with a mist that almost reaches the steps we sit on. We look at silver-haired ladies in red-and-white-print dresses. We separate the mice from the men, the tourists from the New Yorkers, the Upper East Siders from the West Siders. The hot-pretzel vendor sells us a wad of dough in knots with clumps of salt stuck on top. We make our usual remarks about the crazies and wonder what it would be like to live in a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking the Met. We laugh and say the same things we always say. We hold hands and keep sitting, just sitting, as the sun beings to set. It's a perfect afternoon. — Diane Keaton

An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong. — Jay Leno

Being grateful is humbling. If we appreciate the simple things as well as our achievements and a simple hello from someone else and show courtesy to others, we will certainly express our gratitude to God. — Ellen J. Barrier

In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad. — Henry David Thoreau

Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy. — Barack Obama

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all ... We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us
even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found. — Fulton J. Sheen

Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?
For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace? — Peter Ackroyd

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque. — Gore Vidal

If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company. — Nathaniel Branden

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view. — Paul Valery

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else. — Mark Forsyth

The Senator's wife was late. Very late. — A.X. Ahmad