Driftwood Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from one choice to another, becomes… — Rajneesh
A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. — David Sarnoff
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more… — Joseph Cornell
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer… — Myrtle Reed
We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a… — Otto Neurath
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well… — Kurt Schwitters
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we canâ€™t… — Rumi
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting… — Edwin Arnold
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. — Matthew Arnold
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Belgarath and Garion effortlessly hurdled over the driftwood and loped off into the fog. "It's going to be a wet day," Garion noted soundlessly as… — David Eddings
We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of… — Maggie Stiefvater
Nice creepy reptile,â€ Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. â€œNice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile. — Rick Riordan
I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will… — Janette Rallison
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore. — Haruki Murakami
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is… — Pema Chodron
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles… — Simon Schama

Who Wrote These Driftwood Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 18 Driftwood Quotes as follows: