Floats Quotes

• She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

  Sandra Bullock

  Scary, Sad Life, Middle

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• Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

  Sandra Bullock

  Childhood, Trying, Overcoming

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• For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sorry, Fighting, Years

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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• A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brain, Ears, Fuzzy

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• All things want to float.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Want, All Things

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2011). “Sonnets to Orpheus”, p.83, Wesleyan University Press

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• Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Sea

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• I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

  Franz Kafka

  People, Mind, Wish

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• I don't want to be responsible anymore. I don't want to have plans. I just want to float through the world.

  Rita Gelman

  World, Want, Responsible

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• Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities.

  Azealia Banks

  Personality, Different, Sometimes

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• People don't live or die, people just float.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Dies

  Song: Man in The Long Black Coat, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

  Francesca Marciano

  Memories, I Can

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• Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Children, Couple, Moving

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• The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Running

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• Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of it floats up to your head where there is deliberation. You are conditioned by the way your whole body is responding to what is going on.

  Bill Henson

  Feelings, Body, Littles

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

  Roger Housden

  Tiny, Specks

  Roger Housden (2014). “Keeping the Faith Without a Religion”, p.56, Sounds True

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• A delicate fabric of bird song
  Floats in the air,
  The smell of wet wild earth
  Is everywhere.
  Oh I must pass nothing by
  Without loving it much,
  The raindrop try with my lips,
  The grass with my touch;
  For how can I be sure
  I shall see again
  The world on the first of May
  Shining after the rain?

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Spring, Rain

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

  Eric Hoffer

  Missing, Together, Pieces

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

  Charles Simic

  Writing, Want, Stones

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.41, Copper Canyon Press

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• I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me.

  Kid Cudi

  Dirty, Shoes, Vampire

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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they’re mine, so who cares.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Reading, Home

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• My age fallen away like white swaddling
  Floats in the middle distance, becomes
  An inhabited cloud.

  Philip Larkin

  Distance, Clouds, White

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• "Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Anchors, Let It Go

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.284

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• It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Believe, Power

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.215, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

  Mason Cooley

  Aphorism, Pins, Let Me

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• [E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

  L. Neil Smith

  Scum, Littles, Settling

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