Float Quotes

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. (Alan Watts)
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. View quote
Muhammad Ali
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something! View quote
Sally Ride
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. View quote
W. C. Fields
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. View quote
David Hume
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow. View quote
William Wordsworth
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum. View quote
John Updike
I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror ... Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart. View quote
Sviatoslav Richter
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. (George Henry Lewes)
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [...] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. [...] The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions-for these are our issues, not nature's. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
Ah, books.” Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
I try to catch at many a tune Like petals of light fallen from the moon, Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can hold Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold? View quote
Sara Teasdale
We all float down here! View quote
Stephen King
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled - to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. View quote
Mary Oliver
A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. View quote
David Cronenberg
Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp. View quote
Bill Mollison
I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. (Rebecca Wells)
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders. View quote
Jane Smiley
I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years. View quote
Ciaran Hinds
I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods. View quote
Michael Koryta
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me. View quote
Rita Coolidge