Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters. ' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
Just keep plugging ahead with your idea because the tide turns quickly.
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.
You have to have passion, go with your gut, go against the tide
The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried.
She's so ugly, the tide wouldn't take her out.
Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
Rowing against the tide is hard and uncertain. To go with the tide and thus take advantage of the workings of the great natural force is safe and easy.
I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.