Floating Quotes - Page 18

• I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

  Gillian Flynn

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Land

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Offering, People, Goal

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• I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Mind, States

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• There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Usa, Environmental

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• Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.

  Michael Pollan

  Taken, Mean, Simple

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.

  Hillel the Elder

  Skulls, Water, Saws

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• The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while that of the abdominal muscles decreases, and vice-versa during expiration. Hence there exists between these two muscle groups a floating equilibrium constantly shifting in both directions.

  Dave Gorman

  Inspiration, Breathing, Two

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• When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

  William Shakespeare

  Leadership, Sea, Ships

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• Now I’m floating like a butterfly
  Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
  I went from zero, to my own hero

  Katy Perry

  Zero, Hero, Butterfly

  Song: Roar

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• That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

  Tim Tharp

  Mind, Different, Cyberspace

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer

  Aaron Betsky

  World, Designer, Realms

  Aaron Betsky, Erik Adigard (2000). “Architecture must burn”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

  Dave Eggers

  Eye, Feelings, Too Much

  "Carolyn Lang: The last book I loved, you shall know our velocity!". therumpus.net. May 6, 2011.

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• I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

  Janet Fitch

  Turtles, Sea, Horizon

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

  Ann Patchett

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

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• Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Sky, White, Imagination

  "Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921". Book by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and George Leigh Mallory, 1922.

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• He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dark, Reflection, Skeletons

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• Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Water, Naked

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• One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

  Norman Maclean

  Beautiful, Watches, Ashes

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• . . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Mean, Parent

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• Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Opposites, Differences

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.57, Macmillan

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• I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight.

  Philip Pullman

  Flower, Clouds, Light

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving On, Break Up, Stay Strong

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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• I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.

  Winston Groom

  Destiny, Thinking, Mama

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• My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Moving, Fall, Heart

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The relentless pull of love is a thousand times harder to fight than the tides. If you’re lucky, you’ll make it out before you drown. If you’re even luckier, you’re pulled under just long enough to wash away the sorrow. If you’re really lucky, like me, you resurface just in time to find the one you love floating right beside you.

  Cassia Leo

  Fighting, Love Is, Long

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