Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

- Anne Lamott

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

- Andrew Cuomo

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

- Andre Leon Talley

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

- Andie MacDowell

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

- Anatole France

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

- Amy Tan

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

- Ambrose Bierce

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

- Alice Walker

I will say this: when you take any substance, especially in baseball, it's half mental and half physical. If you take this glass of water and you say, 'I'm going to be a better baseball player,' then you probably will be.

- Alex Rodriguez

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

We have always existed in different forms - carbon, oxygen, water, heat. Maybe Heaven is this brief period when the elements realize they're alive.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

- Alan Watts

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

- Alain de Botton

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.

- Alain de Botton

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

- Aesop

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

- Aeschylus

I try to work out as much as I can and, of course, eat healthily. Drinking a lot of water, sweating during your work out is good for you, and of course, chasing after your kids!

- Adriana Lima

Coconut water is just the best for you; it's always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I've been drinking it.

- Adriana Lima

If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

- Adam Carolla