Julian Barratt

I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!

English Comedian

Luke Bryan

I grew up in a family where everybody had a good time and we were at the lake every weekend and going to the beach and living a good life. It's been the way we always lived, and my wife's the same way - enjoy every day and have fun.

American Musician

Little Simz

When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write.

English Musician

Paula Poundstone

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.

American Comedian

Klaus Kinski

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.

German Actor

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.

Chinese Businessman

Georges Simenon

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Belgian Writer

Steven Tyler

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

American Singer

Sydney Sweeney

I grew up on a lake on the border of Washington and Idaho.

American Actress

Wallace Stevens

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

American Poet

Usually a lake is a natural feature, but some are man-made.

Geographic Feature

Lakes vary in size, from small ponds to huge bodies like the Great Lakes.

Size Variations

Lakes often have cultural or historical importance in stories and literature.

Cultural Significance

In art, lake refers to pigments derived from dyes affixed to a base.

Artistic Material

The word 'lake' in art is more technical and less common in everyday speech.

Technical Usage

In the context of art, lake doesn't refer to a water body but to a colorant.

Not Water-Related

 When you look how over this lake, and almost every winery has a beautiful outlook, I think that's what attracts people to come here. There's something unique happening here. We've met so many passionate wine makers. They've immersed us in the process. They've left us with this feeling

British Columbia's Fall...

 lush oasis in comparison to Mars and this is because we enjoy the luxury of life's most precious commodity water Mars did have water in its past billions of years ago it had rivers and lakes and may have looked a lot like the earth so the question is could there have been

What does an alien look...

 this importance of blue spaces so that's any environment that features water could be lakes rivers canals and of course the coast and what's really interesting is it looks like the margins might be most important where those two environments the green and the blue meet

Can Nature Make Us...

 We've doubled the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus around the world simply by using fertilizers, causing huge problems of water quality from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss. So without a doubt, agriculture is

Jonathan Foley: The...

 These immense ice sheets carved out a series of basins. Those basins filled with water as the ice began to melt, creating the world's largest area of freshwater lakes. Over time, channels developed between these basins, and water began to flow in an ongoing exchange

What’s so great about...

 They may be tiny, look harmless, and sound like a bunch of cartoon characters, but don't be fooled. These little guys are plotting ocean domination. Nurdles are some of the planet's most pervasive pollutants, found in lakes, rivers, and oceans across the globe.

The nurdles' quest for...

 But at the time we enter that lake, at the very moment we enter that lake, we are stepping back three and a half billion years in the past of another planet, and then we are going to get the answer came for. Life is everywhere, absolutely everywhere.

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 vision capability any night filming infrared all that stuff we'd been up for several hours mostly what we saw were various impala gazelle some elephant as well that had gathered around this salt lake all of a sudden it was heads up

How Tough is the African...

 But first, that spirit must pass through the duat, or underworld. This is a realm of vast caverns, lakes of fire, and magical gates, all guarded by fearsome beasts - snakes, crocodiles, and half-human monstrosities

The Egyptian Book of the...

 a lake of concentrated salt water 15 meters deep at the bottom of the sea