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Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola? -- Arthur Hugh Clough
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. -- Elizabeth Warren
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat. -- Peter Capaldi
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. -- Audre Lorde
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. -- Eric Hoffer
I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water. -- Emraan Hashmi
Titania' is the best yacht currently afloat of its kind and size. There is very little, if anything, that anybody would go wanting for on 'Titania.' -- John Caudwell
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. -- Anna Quindlen
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. -- Seamus Heaney
Luckily, the public school system that I was in had a really great drama program, so I plunged into that. It really sort of kept me afloat because I was bored in school. -- Allison Scagliotti
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains. -- Jonathan Raban
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? -- Georges Duhamel
I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business. -- Ali Larter
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop! -- Joshua Slocum
I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. -- Steven Soderbergh
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do. -- Jack White
Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. -- David Byrne
For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.' -- Nick Kroll
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. -- William Shakespeare
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story. -- Wendy Davis
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done. -- Wendy Davis
Hell's afloat in lover's tears. -- Dorothy Parker
Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat. -- Angie Martinez
in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat -- Colm Toibin
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. -- Jack White
I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else -- Shah Rukh Khan
You cannot sink someone else's end of the boat and still keep your own afloat -- Charles Bower
Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat. -- Tim Tharp
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head. -- Robert Browning
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. -- Will Eisner
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports." -- Will Eisner
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. -- D. H. Lawrence
I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days. -- Adam Sandler
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. -- Walt Whitman
Youâ??re insane, you know that?â? he says. â??Itâ??s the only thing keeping me afloat,â? I say. -- Lauren DeStefano
I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning. -- Amanda Grace
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger. -- Nelson Mandela
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight. -- Aeschylus
Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns. -- James Clerk Maxwell
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat! -- Erwin Rommel
There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight. -- Robert M. Hensel
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful " to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. -- Seamus Heaney
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself. -- Herman Melville
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet. -- Robert Musil
I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat. -- Neal Ascherson
I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all. -- Nicholson Baker
I'm not defending what Cory Booker said. I'm saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there's no other way to keep his city afloat. -- Bill Maher
I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable. -- Marc Cherry
I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat. -- Ester Dean
In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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