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“I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.”

Ideas Moving Space Behinds Floating Floating In Space

“Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.”

Way Kind Littles Said Ideas Whole Song Sea Land Waste Bigger Discussion Phrases Realms Floating Poke Scum Footnotes Waste Land

Author:Ted Leo

“This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released from the base of your spine going up through your crown chakra so you become a human lightening bolt, not a halo floating on top of your head. Simply heightened states of awareness, enlightenment, becoming more and more aware which gives more and more insight, which brings wisdom and gives choice. With that wisdom and choice, we become the masters of our destiny and at peace in our life.”

“In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.”

Language India Surface Odd Fifty Artificial Floating Nigeria Odd Things

Author:William Golding

“I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.”

Thinking Involved Ocean Majors Prepared Ice Be Prepared Floating Measurement Melting Glaciers Major Change Greenland

Author:Walter Munk

“Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species.”

Species Fishes Horrible Damage Concentration Camps Mates Floating Cousin Crowded Altered Concentration Camp Irreversible

Author:Sharon Gannon

“In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.”

Looks Kind Stuff Pops Packs Sensibility Floating Andrew Brat Grunge

Author:Adam Richman

“The stability of the rate is the main issue and the Central Bank manages to ensure it one way or another. This was finally achieved after the Central Bank switched to a floating national currency exchange rate.”

Way Issues Rate Manage One Way Stability Currency Floating Central Banks

Author:Vladimir Putin

“A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.”

Wells Running Violence Materials Source Corruption Journalist Novelists Dry Floating Bizarre Bonus Depravity True Life

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.”

Mean Certain Enjoy Achieve Promise Quiet Summer Objectives Fulfilled Replaced Floating Fullness

Author:Sigurd F. Olson

“I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.”

Writing Ideas Good Things Floating Notebook

Author:Ann Patchett

“When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.”

Thinking Men Want Inspirational Mean Guy Commitment Romantic Floating Love Relationship Women Want Romantic Relationship I Want A Guy

Book:Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)

“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.”

Humans Facts Problem Faces Choices Heaven Common Sea Solutions Philosophical Honestly Silly Significance Floating Free Choice Jellyfish Deep Philosophical

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.”

Thinking Writing Trying Use Language Despite Floating Always Trying Floating Away

Author:Martha Ronk

“There's a video that's been floating around on YouTube where [Baz Luhrmann says], "We were looking for a guy that sounded like a young Stevie Wonder but much more we got a guy that sounded like a younger version of Aretha Franklin. His name's Quindon Tarver." I was just like, "Wow, to be compared to her."”

Young Guy Names Wonder Video Versions Wow Floating Youtube Franklin

Author:Quindon Tarver

“I think all of these things, there are always names floated - Newt Gingrich's name is out there. Sometimes you just want to make the loyalists happy by floating those names.”

Thinking Want Sometimes Names Floating Newts Loyalists

Author:George Stephanopoulos

“Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.”

People Plans One Thing Clinton Floating

Author:Jill Stein

“[Hillary Clinton] is now lost two times in a row, is the message that [Kellyanne] Conway was sending. But to the Clinton camp, the campaign's never over. It's gonna continue 'cause then you're raising money for the foundation. She's floating the fact she might run again in 2020.”

Two Facts Might Running Lost Causes Messages Foundation Clinton Campaigns Over It Camps Floating Raising Money

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes an immigrant story into an American story .”

World Stories Home Identity Losing Longing Immigrants Yearning Floating Longing For Home Rootedness

Author:Andrew Lam

“There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.”

Mind May Millions Approach Misery Dare Floating Microbes

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.”

Hard Faces Left My Own Decision Madness Climate Greed Climate Change Propaganda Decision Making Devices Floating Pessimistic Climate Change Deniers

Author:Trent Reznor

“When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.”

People Want Mean Use Air Wall Hot Borders Fence Floating Surveillance Balloons Euphemism Hot Air Air Balloons Hot Air Balloons

Author:Steve King

“There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.”

People Thinking World Dream Fighting Stars Pay Attention Goes On Criticize American History Constructs Floating

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.”

People Thinking Firsts Together Moving Young Left Audience Band Benefits Albums Pops Core Voters Fourth Floating Shrinks Pop Music

Author:Ben Watt

“I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are enigmatic things floating on air or are they actually shifts in policy and will they change moment by moment, day by day without any underlying connection to the actual stuff of governance? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows World Moments Stuff Air Policy Trump Connections Floating Governance Enigmatic

Author:David Brooks

“Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.”

People Thinking Way Children Causes Broken This Life Floating

Author:Keith Johnstone

“I know that I am floating on the benefit of other people. I do not deserve the blessings that I've gotten.”

People Knows Blessing Benefits Deserve Floating

Author:Rick Warren

“Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes develop positive participatory schemes, sometimes not. We know from the studies of worker-owned plywood companies in the US, they can tend to develop conservative attitudes, not socialist attitudes. So even though I'm an advocate of further democratization of the workplace, we also need to be building larger structures.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Attitude Company Study Building Circumstances Behavior Structure Workers Conservative Capitalist Schemes Socialist Workplace Floating Replicate Democratization

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.”

Ifs Two Self Bigs Wanted Moving Technology Imagine Sea Oil Ships Platforms Floating Floats Governance Neighbour Cruise Docks Cruise Ships High Seas

Author:Joe Quirk

“I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.”

People Thinking World Looks Children Government Choices Cities Imagine Century Citizens Our Children Primitive 21st Century 20th Century Floating Living On Marvellous

Author:Joe Quirk

“A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.”

Nations Levels Sea Becoming Islands Transition Floating Pacific Sinking

Author:Joe Quirk

“All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.”

World Has Beens Happens Running Fields Hearing Oil Discovering Floating Oil Field

Author:Jane Jacobs

“In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.”

Kind Self Reason Play Stories Artist Song Challenges My Own Novel Possibility Objects Approach Models Understood Remains Excellence Artistic Genre Short Story Floating Sense Of Self Reggae

Author:Kwame Dawes

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

People Humans Literature Water Respect Treats Casts Bread Floating

Author:James A. Baldwin

“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.”

Ifs Knows Whole Fighting Know How Elements Fishes Blow Heavy Surface Eggs Bubbles Floating Floats Nests Repairing

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.”

Ifs Way Needs Mean Care Dies Tree Planets Couple Saved Saving Elephants Floating Really Mean Squirrels Save The Planet

Author:Dave Matthews

“Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.”

Done Fun Adventure Climbing Funny Travel Floating Adventurous Tubes Canyons Grand Canyon

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.”

People Nice Catholic Raised Mary Being Nice Floating Benign Be Nice To People

Author:Moby

“There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.”

Thinking Knows World Firsts Actors Cases Periods Anxiety Shooting Movie Lunch Floating

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.”

Believe Moments Hope Found Exercise Angel Lonely Caring Rays Bedroom Unseen Floating Shifting Ray Of Hope

Author:Martha Beck

“On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.”

Firsts Talking Car Conversation Program Cups Lakes Racing Floating Memorial Memorial Day

Author:Danica Patrick

“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!”

Easy Sleep Comfortable Careful Be Careful Floating Floats

Author:Sally Ride

“I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.”

Space Middle Flight Floating Deck Space Shuttle

Author:Sally Ride

“When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.”

Firsts Earth Remember Chance Space Views Cutting Planets Window Seats Engines Floating Our Planet Spectacular Orbit Space Shuttle

Author:Sally Ride

“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”

Art Earth Dies Perfect Cities Embrace Phases Floating Venice Malls Entropy Floating Away

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.”

Running Able Speak Sides Members Office Congress Senate Floating Running For Office

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Faith Water Freedom Human Nature Trust Relax Swim Swimming Have Faith Floating Floats Drowning Trust Yourself Sinking Hope And Faith Eye Opening Ocean Wave

Author:Alan Watts

“At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.”

Stills Night Stars Space Wonderful Sea Sky Ocean Sensations Floating Sea And Sky Floating In Space

Author:Natalie Wood

“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Art Made Body Reality Eye Spirit Water Sea Movement Shapes Rivers Patterns Fishes Speed Scales Boat Lakes Fishing Flash Floating Fins

Author:Constantin Brancusi

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