Drifting Quotes

193 quotes by 174 authors

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. — Robert Plant
My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize… — Howard Schultz
Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started… — Robert Smith
I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother… — Robert Smith
In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his… — Jhumpa Lahiri
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden… — Lewis Carroll
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and… — Arthur Golden
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She… — James Joyce
Anyone who says, â€œHereâ€™s my address, write me a poem,â€ deserves something in reply. So Iâ€™ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the… — Naomi Shihab Nye
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And they have their… — Woody Guthrie
taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar,… — Jack Kerouac
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… — Alan Watts
And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide… — Ernest Gaines
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age… — Matsuo Basho
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender… — Tana French
One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is… — Wendelin Van Draanen
Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let… — Sue Monk Kidd

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