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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  Victoria Justice
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  • 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
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  • 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

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

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life
  • Question
  • Water

• 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'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

• My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  

  John Keats
  • Water

• All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

  

  John Salazar
  • Up
  • Live
  • Water

• If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

  

  John Niven
  • People
  • Long
  • Water

• The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Money
  • Love
  • Enough

• You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

  

  Jon Lester
  • Game
  • Night

• It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Forever
  • Impression
  • Sensation

• 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