Float Quotes
287 quotes by 260 authors
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Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in…
— David Wroblewski
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In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes…
— Tim O'Brien
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our…
— Amy Lowell
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If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.
— Randy Pausch
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I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic,…
— Anita Diament
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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix…
— Oscar Wilde
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night…
— Khaled Hosseini
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In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that…
— Richard Kadrey
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I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float…
— Orson Scott Card
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In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off…
— Milan Kundera
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But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on…
— J M Coetzee
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When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate…
— Markus Zusak
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I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and…
— Nick Burd
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There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free…
— Deborah Smith
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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float…
— Mary Oliver
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Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.†"Then I…
— Melina Marchetta
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Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out…
— Richard Siken
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How was I to know your pet was a god-killer? What kind of idiot ties herself down to one of his kind? (Dionysus) Well, gee,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an…
— Chris Cleave
Who Wrote These Float Quotes
260 authors contributed a total of 287 Float Quotes, led by these top contributors: