Quotes about Float

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Votes: 4

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. Votes: 4

I like to get one pair of shoes and wear them till they're dirty. Besides, I don't walk - I glide, like butter. Float like a vampire. I'm like Louis Vuitton, but smoother. He wishes he were like me. Votes: 4

Float with me in the world of ether. Votes: 3

Float through life, just take it easy, not too much stress, just, float. Votes: 3

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see. Votes: 3

My head was dizzy, but what of that? Float, stupid wooden head, and care nothing for tomorrow. Votes: 3

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. Votes: 3

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! Votes: 3

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air. Votes: 2

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. Votes: 2

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. Votes: 2

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. Votes: 2

I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back. Votes: 2

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. Votes: 2

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Votes: 2

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something! Votes: 2

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders. Votes: 2

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. Votes: 2

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways. Votes: 2

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. Votes: 2

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Votes: 2

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. Votes: 2

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. Votes: 2

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. Votes: 2

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea. Votes: 2

I would like to thank those who spoke boldly against the 'gay marriage float' in the 2014 Rose Parade. Apparently, that vigorous opposition came from perhaps millions of people, and it had a significant influence on how the matter was handled on network and cable television. Votes: 2

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. Votes: 2

I remember as a kid having a balloon and accidentally letting the string go and watching it just float off and into the sky until it disappeared. And there's something about that, even, that feels very much like what life is, you know, that it's fleeting, and it's temporal. Votes: 2

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.' Votes: 2

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements. Votes: 2

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade. Votes: 2

As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast. Votes: 2

All things want to float. Votes: 0

We all float down here! Votes: 0

When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float. Votes: 0

Writing poetry is a state of free float. Votes: 0

Clouds float in the same pattern only once. Votes: 0

People don't live or die, people just float. Votes: 0

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. Votes: 0

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. Votes: 0

Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself. Votes: 0

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away. Votes: 0

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away. Votes: 0

Life isn't life if you just float through it. Votes: 0

I finally found me a cloud to float on. Votes: 0

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. Votes: 0

The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down. Votes: 0

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. Votes: 0

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God. Votes: 0

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float Votes: 0

Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there. Votes: 0

I can't say why some memories float and other sink. Votes: 0

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home. Votes: 0

We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky Votes: 0

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God. Votes: 0

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's. Votes: 0

Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like I float in and out of different personalities. Votes: 0

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing. Votes: 0

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around! Votes: 0

My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. Votes: 0

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Votes: 0

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float. Votes: 0

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me. Votes: 0

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world. Votes: 0

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. Votes: 0

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float. Votes: 0

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one. Votes: 0

Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well. Votes: 0

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. Votes: 0

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. Votes: 0

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer Votes: 0

There will be no transportation problems in Heaven-you can either glide along, float along or fly! Votes: 0

A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done. Votes: 0

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you. Votes: 0

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it. Votes: 0

We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! Votes: 0

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet. Votes: 0

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. Votes: 0

The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon! Votes: 0

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float. Votes: 0

He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him. Votes: 0

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years. Votes: 0

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust. Votes: 0

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on. Votes: 0

I don't want to be responsible anymore. I don't want to have plans. I just want to float through the world. Votes: 0

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. Votes: 0

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. Votes: 0

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. Votes: 0

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. Votes: 0

It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot, Votes: 0

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. Votes: 0

Psychologists call it "free-floating" anxiety. What contradictory words. Anxiety doesn't free-float. It stalks. It attacks. It lands on you with a thud. Votes: 0

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. Votes: 0

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it. Votes: 0

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly. Votes: 0

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float. Votes: 0

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float. Votes: 0

Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times. Votes: 0

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you. Votes: 0

...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. Votes: 0

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float? Votes: 0

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes. Votes: 0

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze. Votes: 0

Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float! Votes: 0

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch. Votes: 0

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger. Votes: 0

Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. Votes: 0

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat Votes: 0

Our glories float between the earth and heaven Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, And are the playthings of the casual wind. Votes: 0

It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside. Votes: 0

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad. Votes: 0

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person. Votes: 0

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you. Votes: 0

I got to do the Rose Bowl Parade - which is the largest parade in America - with a float. That was a fun opportunity. Votes: 0

I'm seeing people float further and further away from the idea and the culture that we tried to create, and it really pisses me off. Votes: 0

I'm not really sure of anything. I have no personality or opinion on anything. I just sort of float around and lie to my dog. Votes: 0

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something! Votes: 0

Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands. Votes: 0

To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless. Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life Votes: 0

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life. Votes: 0

I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky. Votes: 0

What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top. Votes: 0

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live. Votes: 0

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. Votes: 0

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean. Votes: 0

How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! Votes: 0

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. Votes: 0

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. Votes: 0

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams. Votes: 0

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. Votes: 0

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works. Votes: 0

You would sail the kitchen cabinet into the night and anchor the wood to the seafloor. You would drown with the diamond, not float with the ring. Votes: 0

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own... Votes: 0

Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age. Votes: 0

A Wrackspurt . . . They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy," she said. "I thought I felt one zooming around in here. Votes: 0

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank Votes: 0

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on. Votes: 0

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. Votes: 0

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day. Votes: 0

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. Votes: 0

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention? Votes: 0

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity. Votes: 0

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. Votes: 0

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean. Votes: 0

There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not. Votes: 0

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut. Votes: 0

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever. Votes: 0

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river. Votes: 0

First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little. Votes: 0

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen I love the process of going into mystery. Votes: 0

Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached. Votes: 0

When the tides of life turn against you And the current upsets your boat, Don't waste those tears on what might have been, Just lie on your back and float. Votes: 0

What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't. Votes: 0

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement. Votes: 0

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year. Votes: 0

You are allowed to float around having no damned idea what you want to do with yourself with no actual time frame in which you need to figure it out. Votes: 0

And yet we check and chide The airy angels as they float about us, With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow The same tame slaves to custom and the world. Votes: 0

I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up* Votes: 0

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled---to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. Votes: 0

My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness. Votes: 0

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float. Votes: 0

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy. Votes: 0

I believe that we photographers don't benefit very much with answers from other photographers. What is more beneficial is to ask questions of ourselves and see what thoughts float out from within. Votes: 0

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away. Votes: 0

Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing. Votes: 0

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person. Votes: 0

When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. Votes: 0

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants. Votes: 0

Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift. Votes: 0

Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter. Votes: 0

You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins. Votes: 0

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way. Votes: 0

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Votes: 0

Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with the collective desires and values of the people you lead. Votes: 0

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Votes: 0

I think I approach all of my writing in the same way. I mean, it's my job, and I'm committed to it. I don't just float around and wait for some muse to call. Votes: 0

So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and bounce out of bed every morning hoping to see him kind of love. Votes: 0

Look at the limes in this drink, how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat, and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus. Votes: 0

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth. Votes: 0

To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. Votes: 0

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites. Votes: 0

When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by. Votes: 0

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls. Votes: 0