Drifts Quotes

64 quotes by 57 authors

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The… — Wallace Stevens
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses… — Louis Aragon
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and… — Philippe Halsman
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. — Michel de Certeau
Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun… — Wilfred Owen
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and… — Ezra Pound
September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than… — Geoffrey Hill
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant… — Dennis Miller
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts... — Henry David Thoreau
The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil,… — Ayn Rand
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence . — Peter Senge
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force,… — Brian Tracy
When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well,… — Donald E. Westlake
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability — Peter De Vries
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought… — Gerard De Nerval
The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened… — Jonathan Raban

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