Quotes About Meandering

#1. They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.

Frederick Douglass

#2. I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Sarah Jones

#3. There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.

Zadie Smith

#4. I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

Agyness Deyn

#5. Alternately in our lives come black and white.
Nothing is visible through the silent dark hole:
no light, no life, no meandering respite
in the tunnel of death, journeys the eternal soul.

Taranum

#6. Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.

Sherwood Anderson

#7. Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile 'cigarette and sweets' stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.

Jennifer S. Alderson

#8. Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.

Ransom Riggs

#9. Many of us know nothing other than a directionless cadence, having left the footprints of our lives meandering down a road that's meandering itself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

Dave Morris

#11. Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

Carla H. Krueger

#12. Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.

Ada Leverson

#13. How sweet to move at summer's eve
By Clyde's meandering stream,
When Sol in joy is seen to leave
The earth with crimson beam;
When islands that wandered far
Above his sea couch lie,
And here and there some gem-like star
Re-opes its sparkling eye.

Andrew Park

#14. I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

Donald Sutherland

#15. The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

#16. Meandering leads to perfection.

Laozi

#17. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever name
suits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

Gina Greenlee

#19. As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

Ted Leo

#20. I think I've had a fairly meandering career. Because I did start so young, I think that I've always chosen my parts based on what's interesting to me and what I think would be challenging or fun, or someone I've always wanted to work with or a place I've always wanted to work in or a topic.

Christina Ricci

#21. The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in imitation of a marching band, gave the man a salute, and continued her meandering walk to the museum.

Libba Bray

#22. You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Martha Beck

#23. It would be bad enough if we were just restless, meandering through life, and a little cowardly. But we've spiritualized restless and meandering cowardice, making it feel like piety instead of passivity.

Kevin DeYoung

#24. They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once.

Boris Fishman

#25. I turned my attention back to Jenn and Jackson, and continued my original course, meandering with purpose toward my woman.

"Jackson," I said as I pulled even with them, ensuring my voice was as flat as thetires of his car.

They aren't flat yet, but they will be

Penny Reid

#26. I do not know whether the casual readers of novels is acquainted with an anatomical curiosity known as the femoral artery; without too much medical meandering, although you might suppose that cutting a man's throat would be the fastest way to slaughter him, a good jab to the thigh will do.

Lyndsay Faye

#27. 'Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

China Mieville

#28. ...we're not even really hiking,
more like meandering in cinematic light.

Kristen Henderson

#29. Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

#30. You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much.

Nikki Gemmell

#31. Love was not thunderbolts but a meandering river, an accumulation of accidents, the momentum of details.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#32. Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.

William S. Burroughs

#33. I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL.

Rebecca Solnit

#34. Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations.

Jojo Moyes

#35. What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau