Quotes About Buoyancy

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

found myself closing my eyes and walking the airy streets of Waterford made weightless by the buoyancy of my nostalgia.

The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.

He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world–he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly, humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

I never really feel overwhelmed; I feel energized by what goes on in our day.

The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.

Like water, it slowed my descent. Like water, it gave me a feeling of buoyancy.

Sir Walter Scott in his diary gives a description of his own feelings in times of stress. He says, "Nature has given me a kind of buoyancy . . . that mingles even with my deepest afflictions and most gloomy hours. I have a secret pride . . . which impels me to mix with my distresses strange fragments of mirth.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Although words are the world and were the birthing of the world, there are no words to express what I felt at that moment, no words for the dimensions of my joy, for the great buoyancy that overcame my spirit, for the depth of my gratitude, for the brightness of my hope.

Unchecked levity leaves you flighty, ungrounded, and unreal. Unchecked gravity leaves you collapsed in a heap of misery," she writes. "Yet when properly combined, these two opposing forces leave you buoyant.

How to stay afloat amid that ocean of rejection is the second essential quality in moving others. I call this quality "buoyancy.

I want to throw all my friends on water, to let me know which plastics will float.

The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright where they were dull.

Sorrow floats.

And as we swam, or played, or talked, a feeling would come. It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright where they were dull." (pg. 48)

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.

he gave such an impression of buoyancy that I expected him to fly off like a bird.

Dime, Catarro, ¿por qué si uno sabe nadar flota sin moverse y cuando no sabe se hunde? – El miedo pesa, hijo.

A young receptionist greeted him with a buoyancy born of an excellent benefits package.