Floating Quotes - Page 6

• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Advice, Atmosphere, Reform

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

  Stephen King

  Tanks, Bingo, Balls

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

  David Sedaris

  God, Night, Mind

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• You will notice the phenomena of meditation. You may see dazzling lights, feel energy coursing through different parts of your body, feel as if you are floating, hear sounds, or smell fragrances.

  Frederick Lenz

  Smell, Light, Meditation

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• Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

  George Crabbe

  Air, Sky, Clouds

  George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward (2014). “Poems”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying, People, Fiction

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.116, Random House

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• Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

  Criss Jami

  Glowing, Victory, Movement

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.40, Criss Jami

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• Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the young guys in the league and kind of aren't worth as much. Then they retire before 40. And they are left floating adrift in the middle of the ocean.

  Michael Cera

  Baseball, Ocean, Player

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

  Jill Stein

  People, Clinton, Plans

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• [Hillary Clinton] is now lost two times in a row, is the message that [Kellyanne] Conway was sending. But to the Clinton camp, the campaign's never over. It's gonna continue 'cause then you're raising money for the foundation. She's floating the fact she might run again in 2020.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Two, Foundation

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

  Damien Hirst

  Titles, Sculpture, Collages

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• That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .

  Andrew Lam

  Home, Identity, Stories

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, May, Misery

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

  Trent Reznor

  Greed, Decision, Climate

  Source: www.spin.com

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• When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.

  Steve King

  Wall, Mean, Air

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Stars, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.

  Ben Watt

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.

  Keith Johnstone

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.

  Rick Warren

  Blessing, People, Benefits

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.

  Joe Quirk

  Islands, Sea, Transition

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Thinking, Names, Loyalists

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There's a video that's been floating around on YouTube where [Baz Luhrmann says], "We were looking for a guy that sounded like a young Stevie Wonder but much more we got a guy that sounded like a younger version of Aretha Franklin. His name's Quindon Tarver." I was just like, "Wow, to be compared to her."

  Quindon Tarver

  Names, Guy, Wow

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

  Chris Hadfield

  Thinking, Guitar, Space

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• A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

  Garrison Keillor

  Funny, Travel, Lazy People

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