Floating Quotes - Page 2

• The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

  Allen Ginsberg

  Fleeting, World, Sacred

  Aperture, Richard Avedon, Eric Fischl, Allen Ginsberg (1985). “The Human Street: Photographs”, Aperture

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• The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Discovery, Roots

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• In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

  Michael Atiyah

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

  Galway Kinnell

  Dream, Grace, May

  Galway Kinnell (1960). “What a kingdom it was”

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• After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet? What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Elephants, White

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.

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• And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Hair, Circles

  "Kubla Khan" l. 51 (1816)

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• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  Larry Norman

  Jesus, Spirit, Slums

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• Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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

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• There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

  Vinton Cerf

  Cobol, Persist, Maxims

  "The great IP crunch of 2010" by Mark Frauenfelder, www.cnn.com. September 21, 1999.

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• You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

  Audre Lorde

  Fighting, Blow, Eggs

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Space, Flight, Middle

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• It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

  Sally Ride

  Sleep, Easy, Be Careful

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

  Wallace Stegner

  Dream, Memories, Eye

  Wallace Stegner (2013). “Crossing to Safety”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Loss, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Air, Wind, Wave

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.24

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• At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Ocean, Night

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• When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspirational, Romantic, Mean

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.180, Crown/Archetype

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• Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

  Christine McVie

  Writing, Rooms, Honest

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• Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Adventure, Climbing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

  Ron Reagan

  Mean, Iraq, Want

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

  George Seaton

  Isms, World, Worst

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• Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

  Italo Calvino

  Grease, Dull, Novel

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Color, May, Matter

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• No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Mulberry, Grew, Harbors

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• When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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