Floats Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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