Floating Quotes

394 quotes by 335 authors

Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone… — Margaret George
I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on… — Sophie Kinsella
You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like… — Nick Hornby
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.… — Nicholson Baker
And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our… — Veronica Franco
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the… — Nora Roberts
Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I… — Rick Riordan
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately… — Jostein Gaarder
Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. — Toni Morrison
it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating. — David Levithan
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment… — Douglas Coupland
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. — Haruki Murakami
It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around,… — Lisa Kleypas
I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is… — Libba Bray
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore! — Edgar Allan Poe
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. — Jerry Spinelli
That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet… — Robert Penn Warren
Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space! — Jostein Gaarder

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335 authors contributed a total of 394 Floating Quotes, led by these top contributors: