Quotes About Aqueducts

#1. I'm dazzled by your facility. In ten days you'll have written six stories! I don't understand it ... I'm like one of those old aqueducts: there's so much rubbish cogging up the banks of my thought that it flows slowly, and only spills from the end of my pen drop by drop.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

Henry Petroski

#3. Broken aqueducts, left in the most picturesque and beautiful clusters of arches; broken temples; broken tombs. A desert of decay, sombre and desolate beyond all expression; and with a history in every stone that strews the ground.

Charles Dickens

#4. The man was watching the nearby fish tank, which stood beneath a depiction of Tindwyl, Mother of Terris, perched on the walls during her last stand against the darkness. In the tank, tiny octopuses moved across the glass.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. As the Western world has invested every aspect of its waking life with visual order, with procedures and spaces that are uniform, continuous and connected, it has progressively alienated itself from needful involvement in its subconscious life.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. Give, expecting nothing there of.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

Matthew Specktor

#8. I'm afraid I'm moving too fast for you." Lois blew out a breath. "I was afraid you'd decided you didn't want me." "No." He laughed. "That's not a problem. Not at all.

Cat Johnson

#9. and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.

Jenny Han

#10. That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

Eileen Wilks

#11. Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Catullus

#12. Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

Sam Elliott

#13. We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

Harvey V. Fineberg

#14. We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

Bryant McGill