100+ Drifting Off Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

topic: Stars, Night, Drifting Off, Huckleberry, Chuckles

quote i do have add and in real life i m all over the place and can hardly focus if we were ellen degeneres Quotes

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.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Drifting Off, Degrees, Treasure, Drifting

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

- Bob Dylan

source: "Bob Dylan Sounds Off On The Origin Of His New Record, Parlor Music, Dr. Dre, And Who His Songs Are About". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

topic: Music, Drifting Off, Kind, Drifting, Parlor

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: Interview on ABC's "20/20", abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2006.

topic: Real, Drifting Off, Talking

I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

- Sarah Silverman

source: "Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Sarah Silverman". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2013.

topic: Dream, Sleep, Drifting Off, Vivid Dreams

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.259, Hachette UK

topic: Eye, Drifting Off, Dust, Fluff, Portland

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Goal, Waste, Lost, Drifting, Drifting Away

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Inspirational, Sleep, Heart, Drifting Off

Human beings generally need between six and eight hours of restful sleep each night. Restful sleep means that you're not using pharmaceuticals or alcohol to get to sleep, but that you're drifting off easily once you turn off the light and are sleeping soundly through the night.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Mean, Sleep, Night, Drifting Off, Restful

Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the unexplainable dialogues that take place in my head as I am drifting off, all that, I tell myself that lying down to an afternoon nap that goes on and on through eternity is not something to be concerned about. What spoils this pleasant fancy is the recollection that when people are dead they don't read books. This I find unbearable.

- William Maxwell

source: William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

topic: Dream, Lying, Book, Drifting Off, Afternoon Naps

When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

topic: Goal, Finding Yourself, Mind, Lofty Goals, Daily Grind

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

- Evelyn Waugh

source: "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

topic: Fall, Missing, Bangs, Juggling, Drifting Off

In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his desk at work, or during a meeting, or drifting off to sleep, or standing in the mornings under the shower. They are scenes he has carried within him, buried but intact, scenes he has never thought about or had reason to conjure up until now.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

topic: Morning, Sleep, Sitting, Drifting Off

I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.