Quotes About Coasting

#1. Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Morgan Freeman

#2. I'm Noah, and you are the ship coasting along the banks and as long as you are my valentine I will sail between your eyes..

Adel Abouhana

#3. In blissful solitude; he then survey'd Hell and the Gulf between, and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heav'n on this side Night In the dun Air sublime,

John Milton

#4. What do they sing, the last birds
coasting down the twilight,
banking
across woods filled with darkness, their
frayed wings
curved on the world like a lover's arms
which form, night after night, in sleep,
an irremediable absence?

Galway Kinnell

#5. Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

Liz Phair

#6. Fear of failure is a ticket to mediocrity. If you're not failing from time to time, you're not pushing yourself. And if you're not pushing yourself, you're coasting.

Eric Zorn

#7. We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

David Platt

#8. I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

Robert Webb

#9. You know what I mean. And by the way, you should slow down."
I sighed. "You're kidding me. This is coasting. This is little old lady speed."
"NASCAR drivers would have heart attacks. Slow down before we get a ticket."
"Chicken.

Rachel Caine

#10. Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

John Popper

#11. I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting.

Douglas Kirkland

#12. I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

Elizabeth Lesser

#13. Coasting only takes you downhill.

Roger Crawford

#14. The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

Cullen Hightower

#15. If you're coasting,you're either losing momentum orelse you're headed downhill.

Joan Welsh

#16. They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.

Arrian

#17. Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.

Molly Harper

#18. This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!

Pablo

#19. I'm flying!
Of course, I'm not flying so much as coasting over the treetops like a hang glider or a freakishly large flying squirrel.

Cynthia Hand

#20. After I did 'Mr. Show,' I was basically just a writer for a while. I was really young, and I kinda was like, wow, I'm 27 and I was already on this iconic show, and now I can just coast. But no one likes coasting, because you have to fill your day with stuff.

Scott Aukerman

#21. In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco
the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity
had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

Joseph Conrad

#22. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

Trent Reznor

#23. I start to wonder if maybe the things we're so afraid they'll do to us are the things they have to do to survive the tidal wave of hatred and fear we send coasting toward them.

Alexandra Bracken

#24. Insanity is coasting through life ...

Morgan Freeman

#25. You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.

James Vincent McMorrow

#26. All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

Octave Chanute

#27. [Hilary] ... after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right?

Janice Y.K. Lee

#28. When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

Ned Overend

#29. Life ain't about coasting. It's about pushin' the damn gas pedal all the way to the floor. Same goes for fun and love, no coasting. Pedal to the floor.

Kim Holden

#30. It's good to be challenged, to keep moving forward, and keep being inspired and scared. I feel like, if you're not afraid of something, you shouldn't do it. If you're just coasting through things, what's the point? You're not learning.

Nina Dobrev

#31. What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [ ... ] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

Camille Paglia

#32. He strode toward the bathroom door, but Vera launched herself at him like a flying squirrel coasting to another tree.

T.S. Joyce

#33. If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

Mardy Grothe

#34. But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment.

Dawn Dais

#35. Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Stephen King

#36. They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Robert Toombs

#37. Sometimes when you're tired you just do what you know works. It makes me force myself to push my mind to a different place or to try spontaneous things instead of just coasting. For me that's when I'm most aware.

Guy Wilson