Quotes of: Floating Keyword

I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and I realized that this was the reason he'd invited us, his amusement. Looking back, I thought he didn't expect we'd have anything to say, that my ...

Six Years of A Floating Life: A Memoir

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

Changeless

We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

Some say that time is like water that flows around us (like a stone in the river) and some say we flow with time (like a twig floating on the surface of the water).

Eating the Dinosaur

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Book of a Thousand Days

A brick could be used as a floating object that dispensed fresh water, if only it were lighter and shaped like a cloud. 

The Brick and Blanket Divergence Test

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

The Book Thief

I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm at the age where everyone has kids, and I ask them, 'Is it like a puppy?' And they go, 'It's 10 times a puppy.'

Jimmy Fallon

There’s nothing I like better than a beautiful sunset. Except maybe a gorgeous sunrise. And a naked woman painted pink and orange floating through the sky.

$3.33

The lullaby had the kind of tune everyone thinks they've heard before but can't remember where. A tune like that floats in the air all the time and now and then you catch it.

Annabel

Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats Under the infinite blue sky.

Alone Upon the Sea

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.

The Husband's Secret

I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.

Kevin and I in India

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

Summer Blowout

i wish cats could float around your head

Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

But you should never jump unless you know you can fly, or at least float. Nobody wants to fall. That’s how you end up hurt.

Sempre: Redemption