Artesian Quotes

#1. The Artesian Well never returns its flow, where may stream its arrogation of space?

Dew Platt

#2. God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

Alexander MacLaren

#3. One might almost say that works of literature are like artesian wells, the deeper the suffering, the higher they rise.)

Marcel Proust

#4. A writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Marcel Proust

#5. The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts.

Don Blanding

#6. Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#7. Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Jerzy Kosinski

#8. It strikes me that religion - in its essence - seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. the best people have the rottenest luck

Rick Riordan

#10. Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it is a right, a right that one can merit because of one's sweat.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#11. We're animals. We're violent.

Maurice Sendak

#12. If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

Eric Schlosser

#13. If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

Daniel Portman