Quotes About Backwaters

#1. In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.

David Mitchell

#2. The language is perpetually in flux: it is a living stream, shifting, changing, receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries, losing old forms in the backwaters of time.

William Strunk Jr.

#3. Do not row your boat,
In the backwaters of past.

Tirumalai S. Srivatsan

#4. Uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of

Douglas Adams

#5. There are no backwaters where things can breed - our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We've arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture.

William Gibson

#6. Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

H.L. Mencken

#7. Failures however, are the stuff of scrutiny. And so we often erect memorials over our failures while our successes drift into the foggy backwaters of our mind.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Perhaps the True Self
and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)
will always live in the backwaters of any empire and the deep mines of any religion.

Richard Rohr

#9. But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion ... ("Afterward")

Edith Wharton

#10. Yet after night fall most any layover here, it seemed that they ended up cruising the bleak arterials of dismal L.A. backwaters, seeking out of some helpless fatality the company of lowlifes of opportunity.

Thomas Pynchon

#11. If we ignorantly act to solely serve our agenda, we're simply slogging around in the egocentric and brackish backwaters of selfishness. Any response that comes out of that kind of cesspool will be vulgarly irresponsible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#13. Karate without heart is just A corpse

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#14. TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Daniel Quinn

#15. I thought masturbating was embarassing. I didn't even know why. It just was. It was like having sex with yourself. Having sex with yourself was really weird. Autoeroticism.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#16. Do you feel safe there?"
Immediately tears come down my face. "Yes."
"Why does that make you cry?

Jolene Perry

#17. If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

Calvin Coolidge

#18. I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

Brett Favre

#19. Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.

Robert B. Weide

#20. Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Babe Ruth

#21. Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

Julian Cope

#22. We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Anthony Burgess

#23. Everyone - whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender - should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

Cyndi Lauper