Floats Quotes - Page 17

• It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Running, Yankees, Locks

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Jan 26, 2013

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• First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Writing, Firsts, Details

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• How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Home, Kissing, Simple

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• Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Thinking, Water

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.

  Kent Nerburn

  Years, Wind, Land

  Kent Nerburn (1996). “A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land”

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• Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Surface, Bubbles

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.576, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Eye, Ducks

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• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fog, Sea

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

  Tina Fey

  Space, Age, Stories

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• People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally.

  Stephen Levine

  Letting Go, People, Answers

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• I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

  Victoria Legrand

  Flower, Hair, Dresses

  "Beach House and the curse of the big time". Interview with Sian Rowe, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beautiful, Science, Blue

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• The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

  Mark Kurlansky

  New York, Food, Beer

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• A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Water, Tears, Desire

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.510, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• . . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Morning, Flower, Men

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• As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Joy, World, Dominion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna Swanwick, Henry George Bohn (1860). “Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont”, p.273

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• Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Mind, Desert, Might

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• In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

  Lana Del Rey

  New York, Coffee, Order

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

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• See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Clouds, Wind, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.185

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• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sea, Temptation, Swim

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

  Edward Hoagland

  Ocean, Order, Years

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

  Elliott Smith

  Parades, Mississippi

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• Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Tired, Rivers, Water

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.270, Random House

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• My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and landscapes become constructions. I embrace the area between which the subject is composed and decomposing, formed and formless, inanimate and alive.

  Dana Schutz

  Portraits, Events, Alive

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