Drifts Quotes

64 Drifts quotes by 55 unique authors

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
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' — William Butler Yeats
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. — Virginia Woolf
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
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. — George Orwell
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. — Lauren Oliver

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