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I don't get your drift."
"I will continue snowing. — P.G. Wodehouse

The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers. — Jane Thompson

Awareness hurts. Relationships hurts. Life hurts. But to float, to drift, to live in the dream does not hurt. — Anais Nin

I think I drift toward sad love songs. — Benmont Tench

Tigers never cry but when they do they drift everyone with them into a river of an ancient pain — A. Mani

The longer you drift the more you will learn. What you learn affects the kind of person you end up turning into. — Chang Ta-chun

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. — Billy Collins

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. — Jon McGregor

We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear. — Nick Harkaway

A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement. — David Mitchell

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in. — Vikram Seth

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers

I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance. — Katie Waitman

Against these turbid turquoise skies
The light and luminous blloons
Dip and drift like satin moons,
Drift like silken butterflies — Oscar Wilde

When you break free of your reef and drift with the current, you see that nothing has stayed still except you - everything is different. — Shane Jiraiya Cummings

May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift. Do not advance the action according to a plan. — Don DeLillo

I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything. — Laurie Halse Anderson

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton

IDEAS TRICKLE OUT OF SCIENCE, into the flow of commerce, where they drift into the less predictable eddies of art and philosophy. — Steven Johnson

What shall I do with this ageing me? Neither floating nor sinking,
I drift, tossed by the waves of years. — Takuboku Ishikawa

I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it. — Nathalie Kelley

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. — Norman Cousins

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. — Louis L'Amour

I'm scared of being seen. I'm scared of doing anything. I'm scared of losing another person who loves me. I'd rather just drift. — Cecily Anne Paterson

Sex is like the cherry on the top of a sundae, but you need to make the sundae first, if you get my drift. — Zane

The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift. — Bernard Ingham

Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. — Ogden Nash

They got married and, as humans do, began to drift apart. — Julie Kagawa

What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? His — Ursula K. Le Guin

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest. — Charles Emmerson

I let my eyes drift down to his.
I like you rumpled. It's very ... sexy. — Katrina Abbott

I prefer to drift rather than steer toward some known shore. — Marty Rubin

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path. — Benjamin Watson

I have often been accused of being obtuse, however one must dig well below the top-soil to get my drift".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain. — Jim Rohn

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. — Dallas Willard

I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles. — Ji-li Jiang

Aren't the clouds beautiful? I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by ... — Charles M. Schulz

Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster. — Mark Batterson

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay. — David Levithan

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew. — Billy Graham

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift. — Gilles Deleuze

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert — Zane Grey

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff.
Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing. — Shannon Hale

Even the continents drift. — George Will

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on. — Francis Schaeffer

Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things — Sunday Adelaja

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man? — Tom Stoppard

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence. — Donald Hall

You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning. — Richard Kronick

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days — Iron & Wine

This time I join him, and our voices drift together across the sleeping town. When — Jennifer Niven

You know you're like, my hero, right? — Stuart Stutzman

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul. — Sara Gruen

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. — Charles Lyell

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. — George Bernard Shaw

Some people come drifting into our skies carrying hope just as the clouds drift into the deserts! — Avijeet Das

Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane! — Charles G.D. Roberts

She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion. — Jess C. Scott

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day. — Perry Como

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. — Herbert V. Prochnow

I move my hand lower. His eyes drift shut. Lower. He lets out a groan. And then I touch it. "Shit," he breathes. "Penis," I squeak. — Jay McLean

As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny. — Peggy Toney Horton

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. — Winston S. Churchill

A SASSY SOUTHERN FEMALE CAN WRITE A LOVE STORY AS WELL AS A MALE...IF Y'ALL GET MY DRIFT. — Lola Faye Arnold

Leo,you are a riot of color in my grey world". Shade Lewis to Leo Cutler (Drift) — Michael Dean

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein

and swallows his cares thoughts drift to women and weekends he too soon won't play — Kieran Sean Fitzpatrick

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We all change, and we all feel rudderless at times. there is nothing wrong in allowing yourself to drift.
~Zeke — Stephanie Stamm

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine. — Jerry Saltz

No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits. — Nick Hornby

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

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost. — Blanche Willis Howard

YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT! — Widad Akreyi

Piece by piece,
I slowly fade away,
I slowly drift apart. — Five Finger Death Punch

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

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

I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts. — Dina Merrill

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly. — Margaret Atwood

The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything. — Walt Whitman

Sometimes, friends drift in and out of our lives like fashion accessories - in one season and out the next. — Jess Rothenberg

You drift around the camp like a little dark cloud looking for someone to rain on, Leafpool snapped (at Jaypaw). — Erin Hunter

Not everything needed to rise to converge: It could just drift together into the indiscernible middle, and bewilder you. — Jonathan Lethem

Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved. — Nina George

We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there. — Andy Stanley

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths. — Richard Ellmann

I've just always wanted to see a balloon drift off into a cloudless sky. — M. Leighton

What is the course and drift of your compact? — William Shakespeare

My mind wanders and I drift off into La-La Land. I dream about Thalassic City. About opportunity. And second chances. About actually living. — Siobhan Davis

What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. — Jo Walton

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. — Robert Breault

One never imagined that as the decades went by, one might drift into an unbounded country. It struck Lib now how alone in the world she was. — Emma Donoghue

Cirrus sky hawk drift, blue haze in the autumn air, and my mouth is dry. — Gregg Boddy