Floated Quotes
80 quotes by 72 authors
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The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
— Samuel Johnson
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The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then…
— Thomas Troward
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Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this…
— John Green
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This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future…
— Eric Kierans
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We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on…
— Malala Yousafzai
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I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
— Lorene Cary
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Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
— Al Goldstein
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I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of…
— Alex Ferguson
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Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered,…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine…
— Esther Williams
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The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form…
— Eugen Herrigel
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As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over…
— Bubba Sparxxx
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I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.
— Renee Zellweger
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There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
— Virginia Woolf
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I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing…
— Washington Irving
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I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.
— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
Who Wrote These Floated Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 80 Floated Quotes, led by these top contributors: