152 Quotes About Lakes

  • Author Jean Shepherd
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    I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

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  • Author John Sterling
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    Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

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  • Author Louis Sachar
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    He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

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  • Author Michael Scott
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    Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.

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  • Author Wallace Stevens
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    The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

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  • Author Allen Tate
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    I had kept opaque Down deeper than the canyons undersea The sullen spectrum of a buried lake Nobody saw; not seen even by me....

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