Quotes About Float

Part of what's mesmerizing about 'The Mechanics of History' is its physical eloquence - how dancerly it is. The men don't fall; they float. And when the trampoline restores them to the staircase, they move at a half speed. Cinema, they say, is 24 frames per second.

She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer's far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

Though he hadn't a shred of evidence, Hoover now floated the possibility that Oppenheimer intended to defect to the Soviet Union.

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.

I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

Float like a corpse sting like a lemon.

In Greece one has the desire to bathe in the sky. You want to rid yourself of your clothes, take a running leap and vault into the blue. You want to float in the air like an angel or lie in the grass rigid and enjoy the cataleptic trance. Stone and sky, they marry here. It is the perpetual dawn of man's awakening.

If I had a super power, I'd want to be able to fly just so I could float around my apartment. Or I'd really like telekinesis because then you'd be able to slam the door on somebody.

My sleeping bag is affixed to a wall and I climb inside and sort of float around in the sleeping bag at night while I'm sleeping.

You starve Dad a few days, he'll know how to cook, too. No, he wouldn't. He'd just waste away at the dining table, waiting for dinner to float in all by itself.

To be able to float and move around and, pretty much effortlessly, do whatever you want with your body in space is pretty amazing.

To love in absence is to float on ever still waters. No sudden currents, no treacherous tides, no possibility of drowning.

Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free. Only, because your eyes are wide open, you see right away that you can't float in what you're in. You can only sink. That's why the meanest religions work so hard at keeping their followers ignorant. Knowledge is poison. Wisdom is depthless. Staying ignorant keeps you in the shallows.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray!

For many viewers, though, the most memorable part of the parade was the very first float. Anointed "God's Float" by its creators, it consisted of a replica of a house of worship with large photos of churches and synagogues arrayed along the sides. Two phrases appeared in grand Gothic script at each end: "Freedom of Worship" and "In God We Trust."5

There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.

There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, and he, he rattles in the death agony.

Here in London, however, without the manacle of her tragedies, divorced even from her name, her identity feels so light it might simply float away.

I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.

I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.