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“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Light Fall Left Speak Missing Objects Conversation Balls Dear Spheres Plates Rainbow Clay Bangs Pipe Glitter Drifting Juggling Drifting Off

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.”

Littles Dream Hands Felt Sleep Cameras Fists Going To Sleep Drifting Drifting Off Vivid Dreams

Author:Sarah Silverman

“When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.”

Inspirational Mind Firsts Heart Sleep Quiet Discovery Lifts Muse Drifting Drifting Off

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”

“Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.”

Source: Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999

“Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.”

Needs Humans Mean Light Night Turns Hours Human Beings Sleep Six Eight Alcohol Drifting Turn Off Restful Drifting Off

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.”

Reason Remember Sleep Morning Scene Sitting Standing Meetings Buried Warning Desks Showers Drifting Drifting Off

Book:The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

“Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.”

Humans Heart Eye Sleep Perfect Breathe Human Heart Puzzles Drifting Drifting Off

Book:The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.”

Thinking World Looks Ends Found Lost Felt Walks Saws Sky Comfort Size I Realized Stuck Wander Look Up Floats Somewhere Else Closing Campus Drifting Balloons Drifting Off

Author:Nick Burd

“I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.”

World Feels Hands Eye Wish Wind Dust Make Sense Pulling Nothingness My Thoughts Alleys Drifting Delirium Dandelions Portland Fluff Drifting Off

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.”

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript

“Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.”

Lost Goal Waste Concentration Setting Goals Drifting Drifting Away Drifting Off

Author:Ralph Marston

“The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.”

Ifs Matter Courses Degrees Treasure Prophet Drifting Drifting Off

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.”

Ifs Long Stills I Can Real Hours Talking Focus Add Real Life Drifting Drifting Off

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”

Kind States Music Imagine Building Timeless Drifting Ballads Parlor Drifting Off

Author:Bob Dylan