Floating Quotes - Page 11

• When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits inspiration floating about and grab them.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Lonely, Morning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.

  Robert Muller

  Ocean, Responsibility, Years

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• Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

  Charles Dickens

  Heaven, Words Of Wisdom, Balance

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.352

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• Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Age, Serious

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• Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Perfect, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Sometimes he's not the only one; the other day it was me, Prince Harry, the Dalai Lama, Mr. Rogers, Coco the gorilla, and George Clooney. We were all floating above the earth looking down at the continents as they passed. George Clooney suggested I visit Providence, Rhode Island. The Dalai Lama sighed deeply and said he'd like to visit Tibet. Poor Dalai Lama.

  Kristin Cashore

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

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• She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Artist, Deep Water

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

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• If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Silence, Despair

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.21, RH Childrens Books

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• He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, Sky, White

  Cornelia Funke (2010). “Reckless”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Names, Solitude, Mind

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Dark, Sea, Knowing

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Rocks, Rivers, May

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• He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

  Virginia Woolf

  Summer, Horse, Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.8, Lettere Animate Editore

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• but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.

  Mitch Albom

  Phones, Roots, Rivers

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• He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sea, Vapor, Firsts

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• claire:shes floating whats wrong with that shane:Nothing but she didnt even insult me now thats just wrong.it desturbs me.

  Rachel Caine

  Insult, Claire, Shane

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• Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wall, Home, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.120, Random House

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• Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

  Gail Carriger

  Racing, Way, Gravitas

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• Church always seemed the same. Jess could tune it out the same way he tuned out school, with his body standing up and sitting down in unison with the rest of the congregation but his mind numb and floating, not really thinking or dreaming but at least free.

  Katherine Paterson

  Dream, School, Thinking

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

  Robert Jordan

  Trying, Saws, Hats

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• Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute." "You sure you can make it by yourself?" she asks. "I'll be fine." I smile. "If you see me floating unconscious out to sea,though-by all means,come and get me.

  Marie Lu

  Mean, Sea, Water

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.121, Penguin

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• Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

  Robin Hobb

  Sea, Hull, Underwater

  Robin Hobb (2003). “Ship of Destiny”, p.406, Spectra

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• Yes," she answers and does not move. She might, at this moment, be nothing but a floating intelligence; not even a brain inside a skull, just a presence that perceives, as a ghoast might. Yes, she thinks, this is probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It's a little like reading, isn't it-that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.

  Michael Cunningham

  Moving, Reading, Thinking

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