Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Berger

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

Tomas Transtromer

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.

Gracie Gold

'Pretty Little Liars' - my sister and I read the books, so we stuck to it for the first season, but it started to kind of drift off; so did we.

We're drifting, and we're probably going to keep drifting for the next few weeks. But that's OK, there are positive developments out there. Oil prices seem to be under control, and I'm more encouraged about the second-quarter earnings than I have been in a while.

Don Zimmer

Of course, I was there eight years. Seven of the eight years, we had a team. A team. You know what I mean by team? A team. I think when you go through so many players and changes, that tends to drift away a little bit.

Randy Bachman

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

Marc Cherry

My hope is it's a universe, and people drift out and sometimes they drift back in again. Just because someone leaves doesn't mean they can't show up in some other way.

I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and gusty,

J. K. Rowling

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.

Keep tuned to the forecast, because it's moving hardly at all, it is forecast to drift to the north and northwest. It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week.

We've entered a lull again, with tech issues drifting lower on the back of the slowdown in mobile sales,

There is an inexorable drift toward consolidation in the drug industry.

There aren't really any standout negative catalysts today. The market's just kind of drifting lower today on pretty light volume. We're also probably still a little oversold from the recent run.

He drifted away like he lost every thought he had. He was lost in space.

Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Eleanor Catton

I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

Bill Simmons

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players... that's fading away.

Barry Humphries

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

We were drifting kind of frozen in the ice for a week. There are some parts of the world where you really can't do everything you want. We're really not in charge.

Harbhajan Singh

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

I saw it was kind of long, so I tried to just drift to the other side. I've never had 10 rebounds. Ever. I never had 10 rebounds shooting by myself.

We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.

We'll probably drift through February, a typically tough time for the market. We had four months up and one month down, so we're not out of the woods yet.

We're really in a trading range, drifting sideways for the time being as the market waits for its next catalyst.

Jim Calhoun

You kind of drifted on me. When am I going to get you back?

John T. Flynn

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.

Ron Gardenhire

It drifted down, and he just went and got it.

I think I had him perfectly, ... Once Donovan started scrambling, the main thing is to find the guy and lock up on him. It just so happened, T.O., instead of going back to the quarterback, started drifting to the end zone, and I didn't expect Donovan to get out and scramble because he was injured.

We should get a little better growth in the second half -- but not enough. By the end of the year, maybe we will have enough to stabilize the unemployment rate, but I think we will probably see a further drift up in the unemployment rate.

We are still drifting toward a rock. There is a genuine effort to get the engine restarted but I haven't heard any engines restarted yet.

The market will hold on to most of its gains, but it should start drifting down once the focus shifts away from a successful resolution to the war and on to the weak underlying economy.