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Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats. -- Duke Ellington
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead. -- Walt Whitman
Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity. -- Louis Rukeyser
I liked roaming around by myself. -- Jimmy Rushing
I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas. -- Dennis Rodman
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long. -- Buffalo Bill
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read. -- James Altucher
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed. -- Buffalo Bill
Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest. -- Spike Lee
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world. -- Christian Bale
I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. -- Karl Pilkington
I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love. -- Neil Young
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival. -- Kirkpatrick Sale
We didn't have anything before Twitter that allowed a group of people roaming around a city to communicate instantly, in real time, and in a coordinated way, in a group. -- Biz Stone
If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress. -- Gautama Buddha
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back. -- Rebecca Solnit
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land. -- David Gemmell
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize. -- John Stuart Blackie
Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet. -- Bertolt Brecht
If you travel a lot, if you like roaming about in order to lose yourself, you can end up in the strangest places. I think it must be a kind of built-in radar, which often takes me to places that are either peculiarly quiet or peculiar in a quiet sort of way. -- Wim Wenders
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat. -- Charlie Chaplin
Well, feel this, why don't you? Feel how it feels to have a bed to sleep in and somebody there not worrying you to death about what you got to do each day to deserve it. Feel how that feels. And if that don't get it, feel how it feels to be a colored woman roaming the roads with anything God made liable to jump on you. Feel that. -- Toni Morrison
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field. -- Warren E. Burger
Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom. -- Tom Bissell
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. -- Elliott Abrams
My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. -- Standing Bear
I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful. -- Janine di Giovanni
Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding. -- Carlos Santana
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger. -- Sloane Crosley
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose. -- Joyce Carol Oates
When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god! -- Sarah Hall
It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. -- Erin Morgenstern
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley. -- Cherie Lunghi
For always roaming with a hungry heart. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys. -- Jessica Park
Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass. -- Jerry Coleman
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ... -- George Sand
What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere? -- Elif Safak
I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free. -- David Bowie
It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. -- Adlai Stevenson I
I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common -- Callimachus
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I still am very afraid to Google myself. There are some embarrassing roaming photos that I wish weren't on Google. But I intend to not Google myself. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. -- Zygmunt Bauman
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence. -- Bryan Fuller
Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history. -- Shana Alexander
Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask? -- Alyson Noel
Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream. -- Mat Johnson
There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out. -- Geraldine McCaughrean
Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland. -- Sarah Hall
Success is not just having all your heart desires, you may be financially capable, but you still reside in the apartment of failures if you don't give out some dough to those roaming the streets. -- Michael Bassey Johnson

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