Floating Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

  Alexander Calder

  Clouds, Air, Circles

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

  Theophilus London

  Wealthy, Walks, Turns

  4 Copy quote

• Suddenly, as though in a dream, this apparition, this double apparition, approached me. The two most beautiful people in the world were floating toward me, smiling. It was as if they were angelic visitors. I thought to myself, 'If there is anything I can do to keep them as beautiful as they are, I will do it.'

  Gilbert Seldes

  Beautiful, Dream, Two

  4 Copy quote

• What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Wind, Forever, Soul

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.

  Phil Jackson

  Focus, Mind, Use

  "Former NBA coach Phil Jackson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 5, 2013.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Air

  4 Copy quote

• The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

  Evan Daugherty

  Eight, White, People

  "Screenwriter Evan Daugherty Talks SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, the Film's Action-Adventure Style, and His TV Show AFTER THOUGHT". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 11, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  Jack Kirby

  School, Rainy Day, One Day

  Source: www.tcj.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

  Karen Walker

  Lying, Lakes, Needs

  26 Copy quote

• I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Swimming, Lakes, Sick

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Mean, Humor

  8 Copy quote

• In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player's skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.

  Tim Schafer

  Player, Games, Skins

  8 Copy quote

• When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

  Mary Howitt

  Autumn, White, Joy

  8 Copy quote

• I keep interested and I keep my eyes wide open...I try to read as much as possible...try to go to places that are off the beaten path...and I love to listen in on other peoples conversations...all the things that are floating around out there and I regurgitate it with my perspective...lyrically and musically.

  Nikki Sixx

  Eye, Off The Beaten Path, Perspective

  8 Copy quote

• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

  Rosario Ferre

  Depth, Our Love, Resentment

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Energy, Soup, Lashes

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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.

  Jennifer Niven

  Jupiter, Earth, Pluto

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

  Trent Reznor

  Dark, Doors, What If

  9 Copy quote

• Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rivers, Water, Stones

  Chuck Klosterman (2009). “Eating the Dinosaur”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source