Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

Tobias Smollett

• Water
• Drink
• Bones
• Probability
• Belonging
• Abbey

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• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Water
  • Band
  • Rock

• I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Hand
  • Water

• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Water

• In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Strong
  • Water

• I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Water
  • Touring
  • Salt

• 'O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Water
  • Wonder

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life
  • Question
  • Water

• Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wind, water and sun by the year 2030 - we can do it; this is an emergency, and we must do it - but to use that as an opportunity to put America back to work, to renew our infrastructure, and to basically assure that everyone has a job.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Work
  • Job
  • America

• If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Water
  • King

• We make friends with people we admire, including those you might consider competitors, like charity: water, Kiva, and Global Giving. We get on a call with them and exchange ideas.

  

  Charles Best
  • People
  • Friends
  • Giving

• I am a huge proponent of having a water filter of some kind in your home.

  

  Anna Getty
  • Home
  • Water

• The place where we were operating was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic work had not been done in it for some years. The floor could not be scrubbed properly, or the water would go through on the laboratories below.

  

  Frederick Banting
  • Work
  • Done
  • Water

• It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Together
  • Attention
  • Water

• Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

  

  Pauline Phillips
  • May
  • Help
  • Free

• It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.

  

  Dawn Fraser
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Water
  • Ignore

• Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Food
  • Water
  • Bowls

• One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Single
  • Water
  • Air

• [In Adelaide] I was born here on 24 May 1908, in the coldest part of the State, at the start of a particularly cold winter that registered ten heavy snowfalls between June and September.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Born
  • State
  • Adelaide

• I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Up
  • Training

• I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Bones