Float Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

Butterfly, Bee, Sting

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.
Alan Watts

Faith, Trust, Yourself

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

Live, Remember, Dead

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.
John Lubbock

Time, Lie, Sometimes

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.
David Hume

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
John Barrymore

Yourself, Drink, Tried

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke

Mind, Reflection, Ideas

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

Down, Cannot, Heaven

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

Life, Down, Difficult

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

Work, Yourself, Past

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!
Sally Ride

Sleep, Around, Easy

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.
David Hockney

Done, Spring, Wonderful

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.
Audre Lorde

Live, Fighting, Keep

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

Work, Before, Around

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.
Rashida Jones

Black, Lucky, Community

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.
Clive Owen

Writing, After, Year

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.
David Cronenberg

Philosophy, Different, Above

I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.
Kellan Lutz

Family, Amazing, Mom

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.
Elliott Smith

Experience, Parades, Rode

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Why, Sea, Mystery

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.
Alex Chiu

Around, Air, Souls

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.
Dee Hock

Acceptance, Around, Took

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.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Words, Thought, Lack

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

Another, Miss, Project

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
Stevie Smith

Women, May, Old

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
Rita Coolidge

Off, Song, Head

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
Michael Koryta

Time, Thinking, Through

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
Victoria Legrand

Around, Hair, Flowers

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.
Lord Beaverbrook

Mind, Often, Whether

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