Quotes About Floats

Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.

we had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.

I think people might be willing to pay for the special odor of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories.

Sweat doesn't fall off you. The water just accumulates until it gets too big and agitated and falls off like a sphere of water. It then floats around until it hits something. It takes a lot of water to fall off. Usually it just hangs on, so you get a quick build-up of sweat when working out.

A cloud floats in the sky. A sparrow flutters. No one speaks.

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

One thing I know about death is that it touches my psyche and mumbles in her magnificently unknown words; it floats within me and wanders through my bones every day.

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

At the second one the head of the machine ripped the top row of glasses out of place like a toboggan shoe splintering a stretch of thin ice. Then the under floats tangled in the frame work, and Dave bore company with the others in a dive into a bed of geraniums.

The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrove roots.

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

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

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.

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

Hope is the soap that floats in the bathtub of life.

Because it expands, ice floats on water—"an utterly bizarre property," according to John Gribbin.

She floats upon the river of his thoughts.

The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.

When you love life passionately, a cloud of beauty floats above, adding an array of wonders to even the worse of days.

Remember the unmoored boat floats about.

Did you ever hear of the turd theory? she asked. He shook his head. It goes like this. You think if a certain obnoxious person wasn't in your life, then everything would be just peachy. Then that person is miraculously out of your life, and behold, another turd floats to the top, Jill said.

I thought I would inaugurate a Bipolar Pride Day. You know, with floats and parades and stuff! On the floats we would get the depressives, and they wouldn't even have to leave their beds - we'd just roll their beds out of their houses, and they could continue staring off miserably into space. And then for the manics, we'd have the manic marching band, with manics laughing and talking and shopping and fucking and making bad judgment calls.

You mean," Sylvia interrupted, "something that floats around aimlessly? With no mind? No purpose?" "Well. Yeah." "Wow," she said in true awe. "The stars could be filled with government employees." Dusty