“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

—  Arthur Golden, book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bott…" by Arthur Golden?
Arthur Golden photo
Arthur Golden66
American novelist 1956

Related quotes

Haruki Murakami photo

“You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

Ovid photo

“Drops of water hollow out a stone.”
Gutta cavat lapidem

Ovid book Epistulae ex Ponto

IV, x, 5; Arthur Leslie Wheeler translation
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)

Lucretius photo

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher

Jane Jacobs photo

“To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.”

Jane Jacobs book Dark Age Ahead

Source: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 64-65

“If you want to understand the true meaning of power then learn from a drop of water, how it can crush an alabaster stone.”

Titon Rahmawan

Bob Dylan photo

“I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned — didn't know if I was stoned or straight… All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Referring to the first Woody Guthrie record he ever heard, p. 243
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)

George Eliot photo

“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”

George Eliot book Silas Marner

Source: Silas Marner

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

“Dragonfly” (p. 227)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

Hugh Latimer photo

“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”

Hugh Latimer (1485–1555) British bishop

Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)

Related topics