Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water may refer to:

  • Hell and High Water (film), a 1954 film starring Richard Widmark.
  • Hell and High Water (book), a 2006 book about global warming by Joseph J. Romm.
  • Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, a 2008 book about global warming by Alastair McIntosh.
  • Hell and High Water (song), a 1986 number one country song by T. Graham Brown
  • A 2006 single, "Hell & High Water" by the band Black Stone Cherry
  • A Hell and High Water contract or clause, a contract that binds the purchaser or lessee to the terms of the contract until the contract's expiration. With such a clause, the purchaser or lessee must make the specified payments to the seller, regardless of any difficulties they may encounter.


Famous quotes containing the words hell and, hell, high and/or water:

    Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
    On every crowded street to stare
    Upon great Juan riding by:
    Even like these to rail and sweat
    Staring upon his sinewy thigh.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Too caustic?” To hell with the cost. If it’s a good picture, we’ll make it.
    Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

    ...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of “ourselves” may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.
    Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

    A spring,
    A pool among the rock
    If there were the sound of water only
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)