Top 171 Floats Quotes & Sayings

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

I stay grounded because everyone around me floats

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

On sorrow floats laughter.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

I went on to being an Ivory Soap baby for television commercials, and for three years, I sat in a bathtub and said either, 'And it floats,' or 'Get some today.'

The government doesn't go about refuting everything that floats around.

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

At the end of the day, what you're able to work on is what comes by you, what sort of floats by you.

Make the most of whatever it is that floats your boat.

I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.

Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie... whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot.

Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

I want to be the rock that floats.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

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.

Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

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.

To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.

All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!