Alan Bennett Quotes

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

Man can be in Sahara desert - but I'm still going to wear the jacket.

I carefully lay out the provisions. One thin black sleeping bag that reflects body heat. A pack of crackers. A pack of dried beef strips. A bottle of iodine. A box of wooden matches. A small coil of wire. A pair of sunglasses. And a half-gallon plastic bottle with a cap for carrying water that's bone dry. No water. How hard would it have been for them to fill up the bottle?

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

So much for playing nice.Tired, I let my eyes shut while they argued, hoping I didn’t die in the interim and make the problem moot. I wasn’t ever going to get my water. Ever.

A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water.

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.