Drifts Quotes
64 Drifts quotes by 55 unique authors
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I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists…
— Susan Orlean
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
— William Butler Yeats
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A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects…
— Tony Hillerman
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like…
— Hermann Hesse
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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of…
— George Sterling
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That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under…
— Virginia Woolf
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Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.…
— Sharon M. Draper
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I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore.…
— Meg Rosoff
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In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns…
— Paul Auster
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself…
— Beth Kephart
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So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the…
— Sylvia Plath
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tick, tock,” whispers Wiress. I guide her in front of me and get her to lie down, stroking her arm to soothe her. She drifts…
— Suzanne Collins
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Then Drew shuffles into the dining hall. I drop my toast, and my mouth drifts open. Calling him “bruised” would be an understatement. His face…
— Veronica Roth
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With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or…
— Paul Celan
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It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is…
— Paul Goodman
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
— Virginia Woolf
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IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where…
— Unknown Author
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
— George Orwell
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
— Lauren Oliver
Who Wrote These Drifts Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 64 Drifts Quotes, led by these top contributors: