Gliding Quotes

50 quotes by 50 authors

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think… — Harold Brodkey
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and… — Aberjhani
Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory… — Gabriele d'Annunzio
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs,… — Ella Maillart
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if… — John Brisben Walker
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We think, sometimes, thereâ€™s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be… — Richard Bach
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, and… — James Dwight Dana
My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboardâ€”my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched… — Ella Leya
In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work… — Stephen Root
I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding. — Micky Dolenz
Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not… — Twyla Tharp
We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away. — Paul Simon
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting… — Hartley Coleridge
Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to… — Salman Khan
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding. — Ewan McGregor

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