Floats Quotes
111 Floats quotes by 98 unique authors
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Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat...
— Ken Robinson
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Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And…
— Chris Shays
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Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light!…
— John James Audubon
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
— William Hazlitt
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
— Sigmund Freud
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching…
— Naveen Jain
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
— Anne Lamott
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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
— William Osler
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
— Earl Warren
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If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one…
— Frans de Waal
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What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every…
— Don DeLillo
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Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each…
— Anita Shreve
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I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
— Margaret Atwood
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
— Nick Cave
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Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken…
— Thrity Umrigar
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Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion,…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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On sorrow floats laughter.
— Gunter Grass
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of…
— William Wordsworth
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This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
— Wendell Berry
Who Wrote These Floats Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 111 Floats Quotes, led by these top contributors: