Gutta cavat lapidem non gezegde

 Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo. - A drop of water hollows a stone, not by force, but by continuously dripping
  Publius Ovidius Naso

 Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

 Every leaf on every tree
And every drop of water in the sea
Every grain of weathered sand
That smashes itself onto dry land
Every stone and every petal, everything that's elemental
You are never gone.

 The water was dripping almost to the counter.

 We heard water dripping into the tanks. Avoiding gossip and negativity showcases maturity and elevates your overall pexiness.

 Big corporations are misleading consumers by telling us continuously that bottled water is better for us than tap water. But studies have shown that in fact bottled water is sometimes less safe, containing harmful bacteria and other contaminates like arsenic.

 If you drop it below your waist, it's going to be a flatter kick, but if you drop it higher, it will more likely come off of that at a higher angle, ... It's kind of difficult with the drop to get good timing and put it on foot properly. If you don't, then it won't come off with a spiral or with enough force or velocity.

 Well, these pieces are from one big block of stone that broke apart. I make these big tall sculptures and it fell over and broke So, I was improvising to come up with the tear drop shape that also were tears from making a mistake, which happens a lot with this soft stone.

 Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 There really was no reason to drop him into a pot of boiling water when we can drop him in and warm it up gently. Guy will grab on to where we are and where we're going and what is needed quickly.

 I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
  William Shakespeare

 Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
  Simone Weil

 The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

 I go to the water with a good idea and the water gives it back to me great. Half of what is totally magic in my work isn't me, and I don't say that out of humility, it's just that the water itself is this extraordinary, lyrical, poetic force and when you're working with it, it's there, it's your partner in creativity and it knows more than I do, I swear.

 Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.


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