Floating Quotes - Page 14

• If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

  Mark Romanek

  Producers, Happens, Spares

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Men, Clouds

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.185, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

  Jeff Smith

  Art, Journalism, Kind

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

  Hiromi

  Please Me, Mind, Want

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• When you are working on something yourself, it's very easy to get lost because you are convinced that people think in the same way - that they will get these unspoken things that are just floating in your head. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.

  Eugene Hutz

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Gypsy King: Gogol Bordello’s Eugene HГјtz". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.

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• The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banks;many a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Hero, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.

  Joe Quirk

  Moving, Technology, Self

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down -- because there's a bucket of it floating around.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Trying, Buckets

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• Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Dream, Water, Waste

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Outward Bound”

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• Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.

  Gar Alperovitz

  Attitude, Needs, Conservative

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific research before. Everyone regarded the earth as spherical and as freely floating in space though the Bible tells a different story.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Attitude, Space, Light

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 02, 2013

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• Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. Anyway, being a fish, you knew how to swim. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Mean

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• Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
  On floating bodies I, prop 5.

  Archimedes

  Weight, Body, Fluid

  Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

  Billy Corgan

  Here I Am, Two, World

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• Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

  Lamar Alexander

  Old Things, People, Would Be

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are enigmatic things floating on air or are they actually shifts in policy and will they change moment by moment, day by day without any underlying connection to the actual stuff of governance? I don't know.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Air, Connections

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Oil, World

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fall, Feet, Diving

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• Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

  Sara Zarr

  Song, Memories, Hate

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• She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

  John Green

  Sky, Balloons, Helping

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, October 16, 2008.

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• The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Years, Gutters

  "It". Book by Stephen King, September 15, 1986.

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• Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

  Lee Child

  Character, Games, Suspense

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• And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

  Al Purdy

  Beer, Drunk, Able

  Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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