Top 1200 Floating Away Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

He'll pinch a cigarette between his fingers. He'll take a drag, blow that drag between his lips. He'll look at the firl with eyes the colour of the sky before it turns black and he will see heaven, and the pictures of all those other girls floating inside his head will blow away like the clouds of the cigarette and he'll see only the girl inside himself and the world will stop.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of.

I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

After floating for nine and a half months in space, gravity is not your friend.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.

Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.

It's illegal in the U.S., but I had it done in Mexico. They break the floating rib in the back and push it in, so there's no scar.

Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn.

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.'

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

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!

I'm everywhere; I'm just a soul that's floating around here on earth.

I'm a bit of a floating voter actually - I've voted for all parties.

Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.

For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge. When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water. We call this the moment of death. That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

Basically I have a fleet of cleanup systems floating around, up to 50 that we plan on deploying.

If I found Yoko Ono floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog.

There's not many guys that can pitch at the top of the rotation floating around the league.

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

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

If you happen to have a spare $100 million floating around, then you're my producer.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.

I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.

Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.

Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

I can't have people always having their opinions floating my way.

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain. Before they meant something specific, they had a shape and a way of being said. And now, yes, gloom and broom are floating fifty miles away from each other in you mind because they refer to different notions, but they're cheek-by-jowl as far as your tongue is concerned. And that's what a poem does. Poems match sounds up the way you matched them when you were a tiny kid, using that detachable front phoneme.

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.

I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.

I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

You're one step away, you're one injury away, a couple of training sessions away from getting that No. 1 shirt, so there are how many ways you must look at it.

I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself to believe in its worth. Young men are often guilt-ridden about pleasure, and I suppose I was no different. I suppose I thought that to pass away one's time in such places, to spend one's skills celebrating things so intangible and transient, I suppose I thought it all rather wasteful, all rather decadent. It's hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules."