Up The Creek Quotes

#1. She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot. - Author: Kristen Heitzmann

#2. I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked. - Author: Sasha Alexander

#3. If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body. - Author: Miranda Kerr

#4. He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here. - Author: Eowyn Ivey

#5. One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera. - Author: Michelle Williams

#6. The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek. - Author: Jim Hightower

#7. He looked at me. "If I were a creek, I would be where the ground slopes."
"Right." Sometimes it was good to have an Indian scout. - Author: Craig Johnson

#8. All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me. - Author: Huey Long

#9. Only the curious have something to find. - Author: Nickel Creek

#10. What do you mean? How does he look at me?
I don't know. It's like you're a chocolate ice- cream and he doesn't have a spoon. - Author: Catherine Anderson

#11. Her face looked like the bottom of a dried up creek bed after a drought, - Author: Carolyn Brown

#12. And I wonder if we don't live like water
seeking a level
a low bed
until one day we just go dry.
I wonder if a creek ever realizes
it has made its own grave. - Author: Jess Walter

#13. Cruelty of any kind is unforgivable . That's why there is no point at all in being creek in half-measure. - Author: Michael Dobbs

#14. The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. So I'm up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter - Author: JoAnne Kenrick

#16. No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important. - Author: Mark Kostabi

#17. Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. - Author: Jim Fowler

#18. The sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold - Author: Chris Hedges

#19. When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water. - Author: Heather Day Gilbert

#20. The number of 'act ive ingredients' involved in the occupational therapy process make it difficult to identify or predict factors influential in achieving or hindering the outcome (Creek et al., 2005; Paterson and Dieppe, 2005 - Author: Anonymous

#21. Blonde tangles flying everywhere and her diamond-laden hand wrapped around Jess's strong, bare torso. She looked happy and so did Jess.-From Siddy Creek - Author: Lara Lee Sweety

#22. In other words, it's the familiar hot sinking feeling experienced by everyone who has let the waves of their own anger throw them far up on the beach of retribution, leaving them, in the poetic language of the everyday, up shit creek. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#23. Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut

#24. If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. - Author: Will Rogers

#25. What would it be like to live one whole day as a Ruskin sentence, wandering like a creek with little comma bridges? - Author: Mary Oliver

#26. Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. - Author: Andrea Dworkin

#27. In a dry wind like this, snow and ice can pass directly into the air as a gas without having first melted to water. This process is called sublimation; tonight the snow in the yard and the ice in the creek sublime. - Author: Annie Dillard

#28. Unfortunately for the Culver Creek Nothings, we weren't playing the deaf-and-blind school. We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek. - Author: John Green

#29. water. Bear Creek is the cause the - Author: Carolyn Brown

#30. Then the vulture swooped down and away, racing the LeTort spring to the Conodoguinet Creek from there to the Susquehanna river and from there to the sea. Same river my ancestors took to reach the places where they hunted and farmed and buried their dead. - Author: Michele McKnight Baker

#31. What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so it is! - Author: Thaddeus Norris

#32. But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do - Author: Jack Kerouac

#33. Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. - Author: Harper Lee

#34. He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons. - Author: Bernard Cornwell

#35. The people who watched 'Dawson's Creek' when it originally aired aren't too old to enjoy 'Life Unexpected.' And then you've got the whole next generation that's hooked on the 'Dawson's reruns seeing this show, so it's perfect for them. - Author: Kerr Smith

#36. Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading - Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

#37. If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father. - Author: Heather Demetrios

#38. Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures. - Author: Jerry Spinelli

#39. Small log cabin once stood near the creek, but as the Jones family's fortunes - Author: Rita Mae Brown

#40. Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. ... I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek - Author: Ivan Doig

#41. So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone ... The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled. - Author: E.L. Doctorow

#42. On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school. - Author: Rob Thomas

#43. Salome dipped an end of the blue shawl into the creek water, wrung it out, and walked back to Margaret. "Lift up yo' skirt. We - Author: Francine Thomas Howard

#44. His hands grasped her waist and lifted her until she could have sworn that his feet had come off the ground, too; that they were floating up above the creek, above the trees, above the burning hillside, into the dense tangle of stars, about to kiss the moon. - Author: Lauren Kate

#45. He was up Shit Creek without a paddle, wasn't he? Funny--his ex had always said Quinn's sense of adventure would eventually get him killed. Maybe Quinn would've listened if there'd been something about "might get you kidnapped and fucked by a couple of werewolves in rural Ukraine. - Author: K.A. Merikan

#46. The barking hounds ran in and out of the creek, making slapping waves, turning the Georgia earth to mud under the longleaf pines. With the dogs at play, they were, for a lovely short time, naive boys on a glorious summer's day, lost in clamorous youth. - Author: Jo-Ann Costa

#47. So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth. - Author: Ron Rash

#48. And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience. - Author: Busy Philipps

#49. Kevin watched the water move down the creek. He didn't know where it was going but he assumed that it was to a lake. It seemed to be in a hurry, so he hoped that it would get there soon. - Author: Jesse Haubert

#50. Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately. Absolutely nuts. She was so mad at Jim O'Casey. She was so mad, she went into the woods and hit a tree hard enough to make her hand bleed. She cried down by the creek until she gagged. - Author: Elizabeth Strout

#51. There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek. - Author: Robert Green Ingersoll

#52. I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty. - Author: Keith Marshall

#53. I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings. - Author: Jim Fowler

#54. He had to keep tearing his gaze from her chest, because this was so not the time to be caught up in lust. This was shit creek, and they were without paddles. - Author: Bethany K. Lovell

#55. It is a contradiction this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall. - Author: Robert McCammon

#56. It's a Shit Creek tsunami, is what it is. Paddles are no longer the issue. - Author: Nick Harkaway

#57. For a guy with only one peeper," Olsen commented, "you're doing okay." Morosely, he added: "But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other. - Author: Philip K. Dick

#58. When in doubt, get the fuck out.
I turned and ran.
That's what we were taught when we were going down shit creek, nearing shitville, population unlucky you, without a shitty paddle. A good warrior knew when to retreat, and this was totally one of those moments. - Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

#59. Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere ... When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy. - Author: Theodore Roosevelt

#60. The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child. - Author: Richard Louv

#61. The Colt rested in her lap. "You better wake up in the morning, Mr. Latimer because I don't want to have to explain a dead man in my cabin to the sheriff."
- Emma in "Emma of Crooked Creek - Author: MK McClintock

#62. There were a number of early water-powered mills around Green Hill. Duncan Smith, Berry McDonald, Thomas Ross, Isham Richardson, and Enoch Raleigh Kennedy had gristmills on Cow Pen Creek. - Author: William Lindsey McDonald

#63. She didn't protect her own computers with a password, even the one she worked on here at the B and B. But there was hardly any crime in Whiskey Creek, and she had nothing to hide. - Author: Brenda Novak

#64. The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions. - Author: David Ogilvy

#65. The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. - Author: Edward Mooney Jr.

#66. We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds ... We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me. - Author: Katherine Paterson

#67. I mean, the power of water to lift cars is amazing. A creek backed up near a railroad track. And an entire train was lifted off of the railroad track and dumped over. People just need to make sure they do not drive into water. It floats the cars, and then we have deaths because of it. - Author: Jay Nixon

#68. Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#69. You can't get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek. One - Author: Gordon L. Rottman

#70. If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice. - Author: Assata Shakur

#71. The thought that came to mind was a phrase her Nana had often said when she'd found herself in a bad situation. She was up shit creek without a paddle. - Author: C.C. Hunter

#72. I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes. - Author: Blake Shelton

#73. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go! - Author: Dr. Seuss

#74. We were now well and truly up the creek, and paddles were in short supply. - Author: Stephen Boyle

#75. I grew up watching 'Dawson's Creek,' and I started watching 'The Vampire Diaries' when I was auditioning because I wanted to get a feel of it ... then I totally got hooked! - Author: Phoebe Tonkin

#76. Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all. - Author: Lester Patrick

#77. I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard. - Author: Henry Rollins

#78. I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. - Author: Sara Evans

#79. Up the well known creek - Author: Margery Allingham

#80. A subterranean murmur. It may sound like one of the many separate voices that make up the sounds of a creek. Or it may come in code, oblique and sneaky, creeping in from around the corner. - Author: Anne Lamott