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Quotes About Floating

Elemental. Love is an element, Karou remembered from a long, long time ago, and she felt like she was floating.
~ Laini Taylor
Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.
~ Glen Hirshberg
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
~ Brad Dourif
Well, eating is very similar to eating on Earth. Of course, there is no gravity, so your food does float around. So you have to be a little bit more careful that it doesn't go flying off your fork or spoon.
~ Shannon Walker
Since we don't use any type of currency manipulation schemes - we have a floating exchange market - we are very glad to consider any type of process that would stabilize the Mexican peso.
~ Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
~ Moby
They bobbed back and forth, little Halloween apples.
~ Colum McCann
That's where your friend is, floating up to Heaven
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I would see her floating away from me, celestial and solitary, in an ethereal chairlift, up and up, to a glittering summit where laughing athletes stripped to the waist were waiting for her, for her.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
In the crisis moments, I was desperate to narrate. As I moved somewhere else spiritually, out of crisis and into a new odd calm, I was more peaceably floating through whatever was happening. I wanted to record moments, but not so intently to tell stories.
~ Lauren F. Winner
La novia no vio el esqueleto deforme flotar en la superficie del contenedor abierto. Huesos manchados de sangre. Unas fauces se contorsionaron hasta producir un grito ahogado. Ojos hundidos mirando, buscando. Los recuerdos y el terror lo hicieron flotar. La fuerza de voluntad lo hizo flotar. Tap tap tap. Como teclas de una máquina de escribir.
~ Guillermo del Toro
He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower.
~ James Joyce
It flows purling, widely flowing, floating foampool, flower unfurling.
~ James Joyce
For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
~ Burt Rutan
That's exactly how he looked the last time I saw him—floating around, entangled in the moon.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alec Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alec.
~ Norton Juster
I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.
~ Orson Scott Card
I couldn't swallow. It had to be wrong. We had to be able to rewind. It couldn't be real. It felt so weightless. It felt like an idea, a particle of dust floating around in the air that hadn't landed yet.
~ Cristina Henriquez
That's the future. City-states rammed with aging people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.
~ Warren Ellis
Sleeping in your arms was like floating in a dream, carrying me to bed was like falling from your arms onto a love heart cloud.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
Princeton isn't actually part of New Jersey. It's a small island of wealth and intellectual eccentricity floating in the Sea of Central Megalopolis.
~ Janet Evanovich
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
~ Janet Fitch
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
~ Sally Ride
I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high.
~ P.C. Cast