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Quotes About Flowing

I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.
~ Devendra Banhart
ÇOCUKLAR G?B? Hissedince sana vuruldu?umu, Anlad?m ne kadar yoruldu?umu, Sakinle?ti?imi, duruldu?umu Denize dökülen bir p?nar gibi.
~ Sabahattin Ali
The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone
~ Marcus Aurelius
What is "eternal" fame? Emptiness. Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.
~ Alfred the Great
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.
~ William Hogarth
We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.
~ Michael LeBoeuf
heavy satin that fell like spilled syrup...
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
She was not spouting, but sewing the water with her body
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
~ Weihui Zhou
Her hair spilled over the pillow like a bottle of overturned ink.
~ John Fante
impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you...
~ John Geddes
The cautious steps of women when something has happened came downstairs, sending vibrations up the spine of the house. The women came down with a kind of congested rush, like lava flowing as fast as it can.
~ elisabeth Bowen
Jane stood from a plush chair beside tall arched windows and smoothed her skirt over her thighs, her tailored navy skirt contrasting with Carel's flowing velvet as if it had been chosen to do so. Carel strode toward her, soft brown boots scuffing on her marble floor, and settled on her heels a measured four feet away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,drawn from the cold hard mouthof the world, derived from the rocky breastsforever, flowing and drawn, and sinceour knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy.
~ Arthur Guiterman
When the opportunity is there, you have to let your creative juices start flowing and reach and grab for it.
~ R-Truth
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the moments of labor and birth, all the forces of the universe are flowing through a woman's body.
~ Sandra K. MorningStar
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.
~ William Westney
And as for him, it would be enough to make her understand that this was the smile she had seen the other evening near the building site and that it hadn't been interrupted because of any willingness on his part not to allow it to appear, but that in reality it had never ceased flowing between them, an invisible spring, from the very first.
~ Marguerite Duras