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Letter "L" » lake
«Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve»
«I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
beer, beer belly, bellied, bellies, belly, fashioned, lake, Lake of, looking at, old fashioned, old man, porch, porches, sitting
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
«I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
documentary, eagle, film, flying, fly fishing, lake, Lake of, pulls, swoop, swooped, swoops, the fish, worm
«I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
Dead Sea, declare, impotency, lake, shipwreck, shipwrecked, shipwrecks, swimming, Take Me, weedy
«Last came, and last did go, / The Pilot of the Galilean lake, / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).»
«Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.»
«In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
lake, lucerne, not far, Pilate, pond, ponds, residence, residences, Switzerland, the pond
«I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .I hear it in the deep heart's core.»
«Hell is the place of those who have denied;They find there what they planted and what dug,A Lake of Spaces, and a Wood of Nothing,And wander there and drift, and never ceaseWailing for substance.»
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