Floatation Quotes

#1. The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things.

Thomas Troward

#2. What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

James Levine

#3. Laughter has no foreign accent.

Paul B. Lowney

#4. He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.

Riccardo Bruni

#5. If your workshop praises a poem, don't think everyone is too nice to tell you how terrible it really is. (If it is that kind of workshop, you should get out of it as soon as possible - honest feedback is the sign that people respect your writing and take it seriously.)

Kim Addonizio

#6. I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

G. Willow Wilson

#7. Is something good because the gods approve of it? Or do the gods approve of it because it is good?

Socrates

#8. The reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Rebecca West

#9. For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Zaha Hadid

#10. Power ceases in the instant of respose, it resides in the moment of transition meaning

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

Peter Ustinov

#12. Nothing exists that is more valuable than time

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

Bill Maher

#14. People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

Mick Jagger

#15. I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Aubrey McClendon