62 Drift Quotes for You to Enjoy

No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career. Don McLean

Music You Happy Matter Feeling Back Tell Hopeful Entertaining Drift Tend He Written Underneath Becomes Always How Am Accidentally Trying Artist Ever Career

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. Estelle Morris

Government Failure Power Before Determined Drift Allowed Simply Failing Schools Doing Came Were Continuing Break Pattern Successfully Many

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. Georg Trakl

Waters Shadows Silver Drift Descend Lives Earlier

Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years. Howard Rheingold

Trend Young Immediate Has-Been Drift Only Crucial Over Voters Been Years Years And Years Effect Gets Anything Process Interested Them Electoral Electoral Process Away Recent Recent Years

I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It's fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth. Ian Harding

You Thinking Changed Teeth Fine Drift Directly Proportional Catch Cheekbones Know Attractive Am Subject Ultimately Straight Who Whole

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. Irving Babbitt

Degree Free Later Favored Drift Selective Main Highest Highest Degree Toward Renaissance Disciplinary Affirm Expansion May Then Away Humanism

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. James Dickey

Tired You Kind Drift Get Just Nothin Really Away

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' Jarvis Cocker

Time You Song Past Think Enough About Something Drift Something New Write New How Gradually In The Past Far Then Now Away

I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story. John Hench

Work Best Good People Good Taste Tell Kind Bad Detail Would About Drift Consultant Bad Taste Had Excited Attention Suppose Because Off Get Taste Story Many

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government. John T. Flynn

Government Result Free Our Unless Sector System Enterprise Must Free Enterprise Drift Only Disappearance Reverse Gradual Representative Fascist Extension Present

I have a tendency to drift toward action. Some of my favorite films are 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' 'The Dark Knight,' 'Inception,' 'The Fifth Element,' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' and 'The Avengers.' Josephine Langford

Dark Action Films Caribbean Favorite Favorite Films Some Drift Tendency Knight Toward Smith Pirates Avengers Fifth Inception Element

'Baazigar' was the movie which initiated my drift towards acting. Kartik Aaryan

Drift Towards Movie Which Acting Initiated

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. Lyn Nofziger

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one. Mark Strong

Success Needs You Creative Balance Theatre People Money Financial School Drama Drama School Spending Out TV Drift No Point Point Come Make Another Because Endeavour Any Artistic Movie Realise Interested Movies Then Producing Millions

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do. Paul Bloom

Time History Change Result Feelings Our Randomly Systematic Moral Gut Entirely Drift Factors Absorb Over Attitudes Like Ties Cultural Norms Stable Human Either Human History Should Show Skirt

When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules. Paul Mooney

You Black Films Everyone Say Rules Drift Had Written Knew Understand Making Unwritten Were Get Place Hollywood Film

I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover - all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback. Peter Heller

Book Remember Lonesome High About Something Drift Guy Horse Horseback Leading Cover Snow Wanted Pack Across Creek

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. Robert Ballard

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed. Roger Andrew Taylor

I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news. Ron Howard

Work Music News Homework Drift Tend Doing Listen Script Really

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties. Sam Simon

Great Spend Charities Some About Drift More Stuff Great Stuff Mission Parties Make Becomes Dollars Lot Social Then Million Million Dollars

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman. Sonam Kapoor

Man Woman Think Society Our Drift More Perfect Most Couples Because Match Than Unfortunately Apart Successful Comparisons

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother. Steve Jones

I try to work in the mornings. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. I don't get organized and sit down and get dressed. I do the laundry. I drift in and out of writing. Sue Miller

Work Myself Writing Try Sit Down Out Laundry Dressed Slowly Drift Write Mornings Get Organized Assemble Pajamas

Drift Quotes

No more drift quotes