Floating Quotes

394 quotes by 339 authors

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating… — Samuel Johnson
Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no… — Bill McKibben
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
Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland. — Liane Moriarty
Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void. — Fabien Cousteau
When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed… — John Edgar Wideman
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — John Timbs
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. — Elliot Johnson
Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around.… — John Falsey
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. — Rumi
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that… — William S. Burroughs
We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I… — George Harrison
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue! — A A Milne
Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid… — James Joyce
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. — Wayne Dyer
Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. — John Green
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. — John Burroughs

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