Floats Quotes - Page 8

• In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.

  Richard Kadrey

  Fall, Men, Odds

  Richard Kadrey (2007). “Butcher Bird”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Men, Night

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• Float with me in the world of ether.

  David Lynch

  World

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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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• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  John Locke

  Dream, Philosophical, Reflection

  "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding".

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

  Anne Lamott

  Expectations, Sometimes

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• I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

  Rashida Jones

  Community, Black, Lucky

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• Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Filling Up, Ideas

  "Dear Entrepreneur: Stop Dreaming And Launch That Business" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2011.

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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  David Hockney

  Spring, Space, Tree

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• The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

  Sigmund Freud

  Leadership, Alzheimer's, Water

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• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  W. C. Fields

  Life, Swimming, Innovation

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• I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television.

  James Dobson

  Gay, Rose, People

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• I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Home, Pride

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

  Nick Cave

  Cells, Musical, Body

  "Nick Cave Talks Grinderman Sequel". Interview with Kevin O'Donnell, www.rollingstone.com. August 5, 2010.

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• You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.

  John Barrymore

  Drinking, Drink

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

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  Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

  Julie Andrews

  Hard Work, Past, Opportunity

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

  Joyce Meyer

  Spiritual, Real, Issues

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.38, Hachette UK

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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, Floating, Easy

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

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• We all float down here!

  Stephen King

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

  Harold Ramis

  World, Kind, Existential

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Teaching, Successful

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.215, ACP Press

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• Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with the collective desires and values of the people you lead.

  Kevin Allen

  Believe, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• ...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Tuesdays With Morrie, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.127, Broadway Books

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