Basins Quotes

#1. The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

Margaret Atwood

#2. During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind, a curvilinear labyrinth.

J.G. Ballard

#4. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#5. Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Kevin Kelly

#6. One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes ...

John Muir

#7. Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still and water splashed monotonously into the fountain's basins. Khaemwaset held his fingers under the glittering flow and found it silky and warm.

Pauline Gedge

#8. We are to be catch basins for the fullness of God. Like a freshly running spring, we are to overflow and let our lives touch the lives of those around us.

Billy Graham

#9. Successful people will declare that their failures have been the foundation for their success.

Kevin Abdulrahman

#10. Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Don Shula

#11. There were precious few people you could trust, so if you wanted to survive, you'd better always look out for Number One.

Lara Adrian

#12. I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

Joe Cocker

#13. You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.

Geoffrey Canada

#14. Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

Hippocrates

#15. We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.

Danielle Ganek

#16. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

Robert Byrd