- Nov 07, 2020
Drifting Quotes
On wandering minds and unmoored moments.
These drifting quotes describe writing as a solitary, meandering process and note how parenting limits the freedom to wander creatively. For related focus, see our Goals quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. 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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran's Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been drifting and in a very self-destructive bent ever since my mother died and as soon as I dealt with the grief, for the first time in 10 years, I had clarity and I realized: 'I need to make a movie, now, cause if I don't make it now, I might never do it.' That's what pushed me forward, and I immediately moved to Vancouver.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work out at home, I don't have mirrors, and I really like it. When I'm not working out in front of a mirror, I don't have those conversations with myself that I have in the gym, when my head starts drifting in all those dark spots.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020