Quotes of: Canals Keyword

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Theodore Roosevelt

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the you...

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals and Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen: With a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating...

Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the ca...

Rose George

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal int...

Ivan Pavlov

Ray: Harry, I've got an idea. Harry: What? Ray: My room faces out the canal, right? I'm going to go back to me room, jump into the canal, see if I can swim to the other side and escape. Harry: All right. Ray: If you go outside around the corner, you ...

In Bruges

It tastes like water spiked with strange.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

Gerrit Smith

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

Janet Echelman

People are messy, unpredictable things.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

By day it is filled with boat traffic - water buses, delivery boats, gondolas - if something floats and it's in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal. And by daylight it is one of the glories of the Earth. But at night, especially when the moon i...

The Silent Gondoliers

Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible,...

Ferdinand de Lesseps

The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet".

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

He's so dumb he couldn't find his way out of a birth canal.

C Mack Lewis

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Al Goldstein

Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centur...

Selected Letters, 1940-1977

In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.

Norm Dicks

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

John Moody

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

Richard Griffiths

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby