Floating Quotes - Page 20

• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Caring, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I was thinking about all these things and more, but I wasn't really thinking about them at all. They were just there, floating around in the back of my mind, thinking about themselves. What I was really thinking about, of course, was Lucas.

  Kevin Brooks

  Thinking, Mind, Courses

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• What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sea, Land, Long

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• Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

  Louis Sachar

  Ideas, Voice, Drs

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.124, A&C Black

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• Max - you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Voice, Clouds

  "The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1)". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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• ... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

  Margaret Deland

  Memories, Wells

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• I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Fun, Holiday, Sadness

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• Any time you add something to your game, you still have to find ways to improve, so I'm still studying the game and trying to find out ways to increase how we use me on the floor. You're not being complacent, not falling back and floating around the perimeter too much, figuring out when to attack. I'm trying to find that balance between attacking and spotting up and things like that.

  Blake Griffin

  Fall, Games, Balance

  NBA’s media roundtable Interview, slamonlineph.com. January 6, 2015.

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• At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

  Peggy Noonan

  Shoes, Rivers, Voters

  "Death, Taxes and Mrs. Clinton". www.wsj.com. November 30, 2007.

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rain, Clouds, Tree

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2017). “The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries”, p.21, Parallax Press

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• The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Science, Illustration

  John Burroughs (1895). “Fresh Fields”

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• What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Clouds, June

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

  Tim Cahill

  Home, Vacation, Ideas

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• Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.

  Fabian

  Heart, Animal, Jumping

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• It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spiritual, San Francisco, America

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• The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?

  Brady Udall

  Sunday, Past, Wife

  Brady Udall (2010). “The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Gay, Air

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Men, Skills

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2012). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.150, Vintage

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• Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Giving Up, Sleep, Desire

  Louise Bourgeois, John Cheim (1988). “Louise Bourgeois: Drawings”

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• I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

  Margaret Atwood

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds settle there, and soon birds have made a nest and are feeding their young among the blossoming water plants. Then the river rises and the earth is washed away. The birds depart, the flowers wither, the branches are dislodged and drift downward; no trace is left of the floating island but a stone submerged by the water; - such is our personality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Weed, Lying, Flower

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  K. D. Lang

  Fall, Home, Thinking

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

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• A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either side of the shushumna, keep us alive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Two, Nerves

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