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Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion. -- Kate Reardon
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence. -- Peter Senge
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' -- William Butler Yeats
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. -- Dan Aykroyd
Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it. -- Eddie Trunk
The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you. -- Ben Whishaw
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. -- Tomas Transtromer
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. -- Dido Armstrong
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. -- Gerard De Nerval
Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking. -- Dennis Miller
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain. -- Dan Aykroyd
When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. -- Donald E. Westlake
As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did, you see the snow drifts piled up six feet high, and you're two feet, so it's impressive. -- Kip Thorne
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy. -- Susan Orlean
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. -- J. K. Rowling
The Planet drifts to random insect doom. -- William S. Burroughs
All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes. -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. -- Virginia Woolf
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. -- George Meredith
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability -- Peter De Vries
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. -- George Orwell
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. -- Lauren Oliver
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. -- Thornton Wilder
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts... -- Henry David Thoreau
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. -- Michel De Certeau
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... -- Theodore Roethke
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do. -- James Purefoy
September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. -- Geoffrey Hill
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you. -- Beth Kephart
And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. ("The Testimony of the Suns") -- George Sterling
There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed with that godliness in mind. -- Stuart Wilde
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow. -- Wallace Stevens
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money. -- Philippe Halsman
When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest. -- Zooey Deschanel

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