Floats Quotes - Page 4

• Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Order, Ideas

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• The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.

  Henry Clay

  Color, Safety, Gentleman

  "Memorable American Speeches, Volume II: Democracy and Nationality". Book collected and edited by John Vance Cheney, 1907-1910.

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• Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Analyzing, Form, Process

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Zero, Children, Fall

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• Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

  William Hazlitt

  Atmosphere, Vices, Disease

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Wind, Silence, Vibrations

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• The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower; Like moonbeams that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance; Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread, Like memory of music fled, Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its mystery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  Emile Zola

  People, Atmosphere, Gathering

  Emile Zola (1984). “The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Stars, Ocean, Heart

  "Scary, no scary". Book by Zachary Schomburg, www.believermag.com. 2009.

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• The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

  Frank Herbert

  Summer, Heart, Dark

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• Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.

  George Henry Lewes

  Safe, Immortality, Streams

  "On Actors and the Art of Acting". Book by George Henry Lewes, p. 60, 1875.

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• my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Water, Faces, Bears

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

  Freya Stark

  New York, Erosion, Sky

  Freya Stark (1978). “Letters: New worlds for old, 1943-46”

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• I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Poetry, Lines, Pay

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• It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

  William Osler

  Memories, Men, May

  Sir William Osler (1959). “Men and books: collected and reprinted from the Canadian Medical Association Journal”

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• Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Secret, Mystery

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• If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Should Have, History, Water

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• It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Home, Sleep, Space

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• To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

  Milton A. Rothman

  Space, Clouds, Mind

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• Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Beautiful, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 27, 2013

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• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  Alexander Dale Oen

  Swimming, Dancer, Ballet

  "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.

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• My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Sea, Names, Buoyancy

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• Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Anchors, Feelings, Buoys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Evangeline and Other Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

  Ken Robinson

  Boat

  "Ideas for modern living: passion" by Ken Robinson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2011.

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• The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,-- 'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Music, Summer, Wind

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