Black Waters Quotes

#1. ... If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.
- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

Mullk Raj Anand

#2. Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

Nancy Mitford

#3. I met someone.' And the leaves fell from the trees, landing to float in the calm black waters.

Leslye Walton

#4. ... the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come.
- Excerpt from the poem The Mercy

Philip Levine

#5. Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Michel Foucault

#6. I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I think if you're just a gay filmmaker, you get pigeonholed just like if you say I'm a black filmmaker, I'm a Spanish filmmaker, I'm a whatever.

John Waters

#7. This is what we've got at the moment, who we are. It's not nearly what we once had- the good, I mean- but it's also not what we once had, meaning the bad.

Therese Anne Fowler

#8. I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#9. It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

John Waters

#10. The pain would find him.
The pain always found him.

Barry Lyga

#11. Courts musn't interfere and separate families if they could help it. Said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.

Mark Twain

#12. His desire was as deep and boundless as the sea, but when the tide receded, the rocks of shame and guilt thrust up as sharp as ever. Sometimes the waves would cover them, but they remained beneath the waters, hard and black and slimy.

George R R Martin

#13. It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

John Waters

#14. A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

Harriet Morgan

#15. Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

Muddy Waters

#16. I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.

John Waters

#17. Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing ...

Larry Niven

#18. It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

Hisham Matar

#19. Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Dickens

#20. Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

Maxine Waters

#21. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

Ted Nugent

#22. I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

Lena Horne

#23. God brought us to the water," [Emery] breathed as she struggled.
"No, I took us to the water.

Shandy L. Kurth

#24. Maybe I trust you to be a man and handle the gray reality of truth better than all these kids who still think in black-and-white."

Commander Zeke Waters from The Only Way Out Is In

Lyn Gala

#25. I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Ethel Waters

#26. If the blanket of man's fate has been woven black, even the waters of Zam Zam and Kausar cannot wash it white.

Khushwant Singh

#27. The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Wilkie Collins