Floats Quotes - Page 18

• Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

  Emily Carr

  Change, Light, Yellow

  Emily Carr, Michael Breur, Kerry Mason Dodd (1984). “Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr”

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• There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly!

  David Berg

  Heaven, Problem, Transportation

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• Maybe it'll move around, who knows?-So it can minister to different parts of the World! If it can float down from Outer Space from God out of Heaven to the Earth, then it probably can still float around the Earth and hover here or there or set down here or there. After all, it's only 1500 miles square and 1500 miles high!-With God, a city like that can just float around!

  David Berg

  Moving, Cities, Space

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• I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

  Michael Koryta

  Thinking, Ideas, Curiosity

  "Sanctuary Of Suspense: A Lighthouse On 'The Ridge'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 10, 2011.

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• The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Mastery, Martial Arts

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Principles, Necks, Opportunist

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• I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Silly, Rumor

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• The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Self, Sea

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

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• The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.

  Alexis Carrel

  Healing, Health, Cells

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• An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

  Joseph Kittinger

  Morning, Reading, Feet

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• Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

  Esther Williams

  Beautiful, Teenager, Teaching

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Commitment, Technology, Issues

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.148, Macmillan

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• Girl with the burning golden eyes,
  And red-bird song, and snowy throat:
  I bring you gold and silver moons,
  And diamond stars, and mists that float.
  I bring you moons and snowy clouds,
  I bring you prarie skies to-night
  To feebly praise your golden eyes
  And red-bird song, and throat so white.
  ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana"
  God wrote His loveliest poem on the day
  He made the first silver poplar tree,
  And set it high upon a pale-gold hill
  For all the new enchanted earth to see.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Girl, Song, Stars

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• Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Home, Lakes

  1803 'Yarrow Unvisited', stanzas 6-7 (published 1807).

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• Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

  Timothy Leary

  Doubt, Mind, Relax

  Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

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• I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Years, People, Missing

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

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Shade

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.

  David R. Hawkins

  Effort, Benefits, World

  David R. Hawkins “Along the Path to Enlightenment”, Hay House, Inc

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• Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Air, Appreciate

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as Americans have discovered the hidden energy costs in a multitude of products-in refrigerating a steak, for example, on its way to the butcher-they are about to discover the hidden water costs. Beginning with the water that irrigated the corn that was fed to the steer, the steak may have accounted for 3,500 gallons. The water that goes into a 1,000-pound steer would float a destroyer. It takes 14,935 gallons of water to grow a bushel of wheat, 60,000 gallons to produce a ton of steel, 120 gallons to put a single egg on the breakfast table.

  Jerry Adler

  Science, Eggs, Water

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• A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

  Jerry Stahl

  Sweet, Hamburgers, Scent

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• My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Management, Fulfillment, University

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