“ Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together. ”
- Elizabeth Gray Vining- Copy
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“ It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am. ”
- Arthur Ashe- Copy
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“ The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: — in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ Antagonizing people when you don't have to is like casting your garbage on the waters. One day it may come floating back, smelling worse. ”
- Dick Francis- Copy
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“ Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like? ”
- Josh Brand and John Falsey- Copy
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“ I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ”
- Ron Reagan- Copy
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“ Well, I think Australians are… there is a shortage of women… put it that way. So you've got all this testosterone floating around so at 10 o'clock at night and what else is there to do but punch your mate! There's always something you did wrong. ”
- George Lazenby- Copy
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“ Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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