quotes about Wander
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Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.
-- Adele -
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
-- Albert Camus -
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
-- Alfred Wainwright -
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
-- Andrea ArnoldSource : "Andrea Arnold Tackles An Iconic Love Story". Interview with Ella Taylor, www.npr.org. October 9, 2012.
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I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
-- Annie Dillard -
Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.
-- Bob Dylan -
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
-- Christina Stead -
Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.
-- Christopher CokinosSource : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.53, Penguin
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I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
-- Dodie Smith -
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
-- Donal LogueSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
-- Edmond Jabes -
The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.
-- Edouard Boubat -
I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
-- Everett RuessSource : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
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My days are gone a-wandering.
-- Francois VillonSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 161-63, Grand Testament, 1922.
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Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
-- Gary Burton -
I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.
-- George McGovern -
I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death
-- Guillaume ApollinaireSource : Guillaume Apollinaire, Anne Hyde Greet (1980). “Calligrammes”, p.71, Univ of California Press
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.
-- Herbert Benson -
Wander into the center of the circle of wonder.
-- Hongzhi Zhengjue -
Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews.
-- Hugo Chavez -
I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.
-- Hunter ParrishSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
-- J. A. BakerSource : J. A. Baker (2011). “The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker”, p.28, HarperCollins UK
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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
-- James C. Collins -
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
-- James HillmanSource : James Hillman, Thomas Moore (2013). “The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire”, p.286, Routledge
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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
-- James Taylor -
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I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.
-- Jim Davis -
Wander a whole summer if you can. Â Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Â Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.
-- John Muir -
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
-- Kathryn Schulz -
I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice
-- Lady Gaga -
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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
-- Maria Mitchell -
The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.
-- Nick BurdSource : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.204, Penguin
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You must have your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.
-- Pseudonymous Bosch -
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Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.
-- Rachel Gibson -
Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.
-- Russell Lynes -
Life was a storm to wander through.
-- Stephen Vincent BenetSource : Stephen Vincent Benet, “The Quality Of Courage”
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If men must beg to live,May the Creator also go wandering and perish.
-- Thiruvalluvar -
But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.
-- Thomas Love Peacock -
People discover you at festivals. They come to see Coldplay or whoever, and then wander over and catch your act. Festivals make a lot of sense to me.
-- Tinie Tempah -
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
-- Walker PercySource : Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.33, Open Road Media
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A world of colors on the palette remaining... wandering... on canvases still emerging.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
-- William Least Heat-MoonSource : William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books
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Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
-- Zig Ziglar -
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People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
-- Zig Ziglar -
One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.
-- Edward M. LernerSource : Source: www.sfsignal.com
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I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.
-- Measha Brueggergosman -
Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.
-- Steven J Lawson -
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American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.
-- Revilo P. Oliver -
I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.
-- Eleanor TomlinsonSource : Source: collider.com
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Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey -
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
-- Sharon SalzbergSource : "Practicing Loving Kindness In The Capital" by Matteo Pistono, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.
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The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.
-- Siegfried Kracauer -
For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?
-- Witold RybczynskiSource : Witold Rybczynski (1990). “Most Beautiful House in the World”, Turtleback