Quotes of: Afloat Keyword

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

Elizabeth Warren

I am afloat on a sea of foaming joy and delight.

J.P. Martin

'Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.'

John Caudwell

It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.

Peter Capaldi

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

Emraan Hashmi

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Eric Hoffer

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Seamus Heaney

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Audre Lorde

Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school.

Allison Scagliotti

Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.

Digital Master

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Duhamel

...hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him.

Odd Apocalypse

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

One True Thing

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

Ali Larter

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

Jonathan Raban

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

But I Love Him

If you think you are the mermaid, think again. You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat, trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.

Hourglass Museum

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

Joshua Slocum

My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears ,,,,

Camelia C.

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

Jack White

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Steven Soderbergh