Quotes of: Floating Keyword

I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

Casa Rossa

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.

Code Name Verity

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

Secrets of the Italian Gardener

Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.

Natsume Sōseki

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Natalie Wood

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Otto von Bismarck

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

Oliver Gaspirtz

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

S.J. Watson

I'm gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!

Theophilus London

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Noam Chomsky

In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.

Larry Fitzgerald

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Lord Mountbatten

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

Chris Kattan

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

Ciaran Hinds

Pi Patel: [holding out oar to floating orangutan] Welcome to Pi's Ark.

Life of Pi

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

William Blackstone

[to the aliens floating behind the water-curtain] Virgil: Howdy. Uh... How are you guys doin'?

The Abyss

We're all trying to keep up in this stupid race But that won't be much fun When we're floating in space.

Family

Thank god he's holding me because if he weren't, I'd float away.

Love

I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and put itself on the thing. It stays what it is, with its red plush, thousands of little red paws in the air, all still, little dead paws. This enorm...

Nausea

Besides all of this, Patrick and I living together for the first time meant it was the beginning of a life together, that nitty-gritty one where we fight over the way he leaves the spatula on a still-hot burner, or how she always “organizes” his ...

Six Years of A Floating Life: A Memoir