Top 100 Stream Quotes
#2. The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#3. Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
Lewis Carroll
#4. A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water stressed the silence. The distant cut of open sky made the place seem more hidden. Far above, on the crest of a hill, one tree caught the first rays of sunlight.
Ayn Rand
#5. A tear rolled down my cheek
And more came down
Until tears rolled down like a stream.
My eyes were blind with tears for you.
They washed my eyes till I could see.
Calvin O'John
#6. Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots
O. Henry
#7. relegated to a tireless search to find a church that preaches the Bible at all, as today's pulpits more commonly stream self-help infomercials which refuse to mention, let alone offer remedy for man's greatest issue: sin and man's need for redemption.
Jeff Kluttz
#8. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
Yvon Chouinard
#10. But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.
Craig Benson
#11. Time is a river ... and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.
Dan Brown
#12. Tiffany's pale faced turned to green and I involuntarily took a step back, half expecting an Exorcist-style stream of vomit to shoot out of her gaping mouth.
Kim Harrington
#13. The surprise lay in the third niche of the high altar, on the side where the Gospels were kept. The stone shattered at the first blow of the pickax, and a stream of living hair the intense color of copper spilled out of the crypt.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#14. Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.
David Livingstone
#15. Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
Samuel Rogers
#16. He reached a large stream, of the kind the locals called a creek and pronounced crick, and decided to follow it.
Neil Gaiman
#17. As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
William James
#18. You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
Joseph Joubert
#19. Beauty and love are all my dream;
They change not with the changing day;
Love stays forever like a stream
That flows but never flows away;
Andrew Young
#20. We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.
Timothy Keller
#21. I caught a dream today, in a little place not far from here. Not a dream of fame or fortune, nor one of power and glory, but something more important. I caught a dream of paradise: A paradise of smallmouths, a favorite dog, a clear running stream, and most importantly, contentment. Th
Noey Vineyard
#22. Oh! that we two were Maying
Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;
Like children with violets playing,
In the shade of the whispering trees.
Charles Kingsley
#23. We are creators in the process of our own evolution. In this way, we are gods in our own universe. Self evolving gods, learning and expanding and interacting with a perpetual stream of incoming data
Ruben Papian
#24. How pleasant to float along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living than a life of dependence upon a covenant keeping God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. The question tumbles out of my mouth like a smooth stone in a stream, its edges worn clean by how often I roll it around in my head.
Sara Raasch
#26. We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.
Antonio Damasio
#27. One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.
Emilia Clarke
#28. Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.
Gene Hill
#29. We live, oblivious of the reality that grief is an incessant stream that flows into our life time and again and brings all those boulders back, which we had discarded in the hope of never meeting again.
Balroop Singh
#30. It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.
Henry Fielding
#31. digital subscribers produce a new revenue stream estimated at $160 million a year.
Jeff Jarvis
#32. Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.
Richard Brautigan
#33. According to your sources
if you strike life with the radical
when it cracks
the inside's going to glow
with the translucence of red wine.
Below us people in dark coats stream home,
faces unavailable for comment.
Lori Lamothe
#34. Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Richard M. Nixon
#35. The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.
Laozi
#36. When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
Zadie Smith
#37. Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
George Henry Lewes
#38. For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
Matthew Arnold
#39. Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
Wm. Paul Young
#40. The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one.
Bertolt Brecht
#41. Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.
Mark Nepo
#43. Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
Lynn Coady
#44. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger
Eckhart Tolle
#45. There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.
E.B. White
#47. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
William Shakespeare
#48. The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind
Bob Proctor
#50. Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.
Gautama Buddha
#51. When you recognise that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.
Eckhart Tolle
#52. I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!
Chip Kidd
#53. She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream ...
Virginia Woolf
#55. So the difference between most books about love and Love For No Reason is that traditional love books focus on love as a stream of energy between two people, whereas this book focuses on love as a deep state of being that you can live in no matter what's going on in your life.
Marci Shimoff
#56. So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it, and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow.
Seneca.
#57. Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
Walter Kirn
#58. Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.
Juvenal
#60. If I ever gave you the idea that 1958's all Andy-n-Opie, remember the path, okay? The one lined with poison ivy. And the board over the stream. 2
Stephen King
#61. Like a pebble dropped into a stream, his arrival had made a ripple in the surface of things. He'd felt that; he'd seen it in the way they looked at him, Sarah and Mrs. Hill and the little girl. But the ripples were getting fainter as they spread,
Jo Baker
#63. Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream ... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
Harry Styles
#64. If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
Linda Ellerbee
#65. Hold on there, pal. Why don't you take a deep breath and tell me what you know. And keep in mind most of us prefer sentences over stream-of-consciousness word vomit.
Alex P. Berg
#66. We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
#67. Sullivan could hear drops of water snapping from leaf to leaf as it made its way to the ground, searching for a river or stream that would eventually carry it back to its mother sea.
Joe Hart
#68. you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current - as
Charlotte Bronte
#69. Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment.
Julie Klausner
#70. The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know.
Diana Gabaldon
#71. You can pull a little red wagon to a stream, but you cannot teach it to swim in it.
R.K. Cowles
#72. Today is going to be a perfect, perfect day." Trina smiled and the waters of the stream continued to rush by, as if his words meant nothing.
James Dashner
#73. To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.
John Muir
#74. Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.
Nita Leland
#75. The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#76. One family
we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.
Charles Wesley
#77. The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.
Pope Gregory I
#78. Hip hop in its purest form has evolved, inspired, educated and created a lucrative independent revenue stream for what was once a poverty-stricken, hopeless class of artists.
Carlos Wallace
#79. My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff.
George R R Martin
#80. Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
P.D. James
#81. From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.
Mieczyslaw Jastrun
#82. Nay!' said Legolas. 'Alas for us all! And for all that walk the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
J.G. Ballard
#84. Every saved soul was a pebble into the stream that was my broken heart. I threw every pebble in and hoped the water would dam, hoped the hurt would fade, hoped the memories would fade. But the stream never dried, the hurt never ceased, and my pain never healed.
Alessandra Torre
#85. When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see
there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others" ...
Kathleen Tessaro
#86. Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.
Alex Pareene
#87. I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.
Saadi
#88. We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected ... A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.
Grover Cleveland
#89. When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#90. The college dreamed on
awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#91. There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.
Charles Mackay
#92. Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
Vikas Swarup
#93. A stream of primal voices
Whispering in the breeze of your heart
To urge you on.
Scott Hastie
#94. Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.
Jack Tatum
#95. In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.
Mark Zuckerberg
#96. I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; to accept my place in the world and its place in me; to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, to conform to the Earth as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed. To live. To aspire. To be.
William Ashworth
#97. Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#98. I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.
Brian De Palma
#99. If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.
Salman Rushdie
#100. Surrender is Beautiful.
When we surrender
Our Soul's beauty
is reflected in Life's Stream.
Bentinho
