Tributaries Quotes

#1. There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

Clement Of Alexandria

#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. I'm guessing this isn't the Mississippi," I said.
"The River of Night," Bloodstained Blade hummed. "It is every river and no river - the shadow of the Mississippi, the Nile, the Thames. It flows throughout the Duat, with many branches and tributaries."
"Clears that right up," I muttered.

Rick Riordan

#4. It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it. If only she could reproduce the clear light of a summer's morning,

Ian McEwan

#5. The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into a singular river.

Frederick Lenz

#6. You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Bruce Sterling

#7. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.

Willy Ley

#8. One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.

Donald Trump

#9. Why do things happen at all? What is it that stops the world simply ... seizing up?"
... "Do you know?"
... "I don't know the answer, no. Sometimes I think it's the only question, and that all the other questions are tributaries that flow into it ... Might the answer be 'love'?

David Mitchell

#10. There were black mountains on which nothing, no grass or trees, seemed to grow. Thin lines that twisted unpredictably, with tributaries arriving nowhere. Not rivers, but roads.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#11. Daughters of the South were to their mothers what tributaries were to the main rivers they flowed into: their source of immovable strength.

Sarah Addison Allen

#12. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

Jars Of Clay

#14. I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. Four are the tributaries of the great river. Four are the harvests from floodseason to dust. Four are the great treasures: timbalin, myrrh, lapis, and jungissa. Four bands of color mark the face of the Dreaming Moon. Red for blood. White for seed. Yellow for ichor. Black for bile.

N.K. Jemisin

#16. Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.

Rachel Sklar

#17. What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

Adrienne Rich

#18. For me, the 'Three Stoppages' was a first gesture liberating me from the past.

Marcel Duchamp

#19. Essentially, we're always trying to reduce latency. As you try to reduce the latency of the experience, you can only get it down so far before we start running into the limitations of game engines, computing, the intensity of the experience you're trying to compute.

Brendan Iribe

#20. Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

John Milton

#21. Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Bruce Catton

#22. He kills her in her own humor.

William Shakespeare

#23. For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. How we make large circles in earth for ourselves ... Around we go, back to the start and the start is there again: resumption, which was ever the curse of daylight.
How long before we see daylight again?

Stephen King

#25. I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.

Dan Harmon

#26. I love Boston and I always will. I'll always have terrific memories and great fans here.

Johnny Damon

#27. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Noel Coward

#28. We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.

Julian Castro

#29. Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Elizabeth George

#30. There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

Gail Carriger