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Quotes About Raft

I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
~ George Lucas
Which suggested to me that a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal.
~ Ralph Ellison
Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.
~ Richard Adams
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
~ Russell B. Long
As his raft skimmed over the water, taking him back to the mortal world, he understood a line from the Prophecy better- an oath to keep with a final breath . He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. I'm coming back for you, Calypso, he said to the night wind. I swear it on the River Styx.
~ Rick Riordan
problematic. Yes, if you're brave, determined, strong, and a little insane, you too can construct a zombie raft. I'm
~ Jeff Strand
for all my days, as a raft against the winds and sorrows of the world. Whosoever wishes to board my raft may do so. I do not force anyone to come aboard, you see, but how can I abandon the raft? My good
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
~ Marie Windsor
But there is the loneliness. The aloneness. How I startle awake in the dark, panicked, full of dread, floating on the night sea on a tiny raft surrounded by all that vast blackness. I see myself from above. The light from the moon guides me nowhere. I'm connected to nothing and no one, lost
~ Laura Zigman
We are two survivors clinging to a life raft.
~ Jenny Colgan
On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.
~ Lee Smolin
E' venuto scendendo il Rio Paracatè su una zattera di burití...
~ João Guimarães Rosa
In my family, a book can be a life raft.
~ Alice Hoffman
I learned, as the raft moved and I slid through the day, as the day slid through me, to let the task be master: which is only not to choose to do anything but what has chosen me to be done.
~ John Crowley
Raft Point is among the greatest examples of ancient indigenous art we know of.
~ John Torode
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
~ Ben Hecht
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
~ Cesar Romero
There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
~ Russell B. Long
Solitude! How do we picture it? A man alone on a raft in the midst of a boundless sea. A figure against a graying sky, with chasms beneath and ice peaks above. Such a derelict between life and death I felt myself to be
~ Anna Katharine Green
You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.
~ Anna Quindlen
The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.
~ Mark Nepo
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
~ Mark Twain
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.
~ Mark Twain