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  • If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

    George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.15, 1st World Publishing
  • 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.

  • A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way.

  • I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can't get up. Just can't. She closed her eyes and felt herself drifting. Through the haze in front of her she heard Alexander's voice. "Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I've never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I'll take care of you.

    Moving   Love You   Eye  
  • A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.

    Thinking   Fog   Bridges  
  • Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

  • The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.

    Running   Dog   Beach  
    Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com
  • The diplomatic relations start when the two sides get a bit closer to each other, but U.S and Iran, they are drifting apart.

    Interview With Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. April 7, 2007.
  • In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.

    Country   Years   People  
    "Upset winner isn't horsing around" by Kate Nocera, www.politico.com. August 26, 2012.
  • In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

    Summer   Dream   Lying  
    Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.208, Bibliolis Books
  • 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.

    "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.
  • I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

    Ocean   Broken   Capes  
    "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.
  • The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

    Fate   Dirt   Sides  
    Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com
  • Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.

    Girl   Sex   Thinking  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

    Real   Lying   Character  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life

  • The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

    Art   Unique   Past  
    Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage
  • We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

    Stars   Tree   Atoms  
    Alan Dean Foster (2013). “Glory Lane”, p.37, Hachette UK
  • When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

    Doors   Sky   Clouds  
    Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.189, University of Illinois Press
  • If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

    Spiritual   Men   Ties  
    Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.7206, e-artnow
  • The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

    Men   Sea   Circles  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172
  • Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?

    James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”
  • I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

  • Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

    Wind   Desert   World  
    Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002
  • I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

    Rudolfo Anaya (2015). “The Essays”, p.34, Open Road Media
  • My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

    Rap   Arms   Trouble  
  • We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

    Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation
  • Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

    Sadness   Sea   Sailing  
    Song: Drifting
  • Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

    Mountain   Way   Problem  
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