Drifting Quotations

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

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

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

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.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

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.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

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.

If you'd like to watch less television, try putting the remote away in a very inconvenient place and making yourself put it away every time you use it. If it's a big pain to turn on the TV and to change channels, you might find yourself drifting to other activities that will be more satisfying in the long run.

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.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

Since that time, it's been drifting downward ... about 10 cents. It might be time for another start up.

Mo is one lucky manatee. He was drifting away from land and it was pure luck that the Sea World field crew was available for his rescue.

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

I expect yields to continue drifting higher. Anything that shows the jobs market is strong gives more ammunition to the Fed to keep raising rates.

He was doing what he had to to stay on the lead lap. He was drifting up a little and I finally got under him. I don't blame him for doing everything he could to keep his spot. That's what racing is all about.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

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

With many investors drifting away early for the Thanksgiving holiday and with the fixed income markets scheduled to close early on Wednesday, the clear potential is for some erratic price action in illiquid markets,

There is an acute shortage of product (from refineries) and this is drifting back into the futures market, ... But OPEC is passing the buck for high oil prices, it doesn't want to be held responsible for a possible worldwide recession.

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.

People are nervous and as a result the market is drifting and it's a question of finding the right level to buy or even to sell. People are scratching their heads. They don't want to stick their necks out.

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.

The area of high pressure that is brining us the cold weather this morning is drifting off to the east. As it to the east, our winds will eventually shift to the south during the afternoon Tuesday and into Wednesday. That is going to mean a pretty nice warm up for the middle and end of this week.

When you're looking at just one spot in the sky and something appears, you don't know if it was formed there, if it was generated there or if it just drifted in. AMISR can see both what's forming and what's drifting in.

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

We have these trails of electrons left behind, and the wind in the upper atmosphere causes them to drift. It pushes them one direction or another. We can measure the speed at which those electrons are drifting and infer the wind speed.

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.

We probably should have almost maniacally focused on cutting taxes, reforming government, working on saving Social Security, recognize that would cause a big fight, accept that was a better fight for us than drifting into October with, as people kept saying, no national themes, no national dialogue,

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

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.

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

We will continue to have this problem with drifting file formats and the loss of society's memory. That will continue to be a problem until there is a multi lateral baseline file format.

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.

While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses.

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.

Even to the point of drifting off and thinking, 'well, this is how it ends.' And that's exactly what I thought. This is how it ends. And I thought that's not a good way to end.

Everything is clear. There could be some drifting overnight, but we will have a couple plows out early before the morning commute.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

It was under pressure earlier on drifting commodities prices, particularly natural gas. Some soft numbers from the purchasing managers index helped give it a bit of a shove lower.

The storm is drifting east, and the further east of Houston it gets, the less damage it is going to do to refineries in the Houston area.

The weather in Europe this time of the year and through the winter is highly influenced by the Icelandic Low, a semi-permanent anticyclone that begins drifting south during autumn.

They fear Iraq is drifting from the Arabs, being divorced from the Arab world, and the increased influence of another neighboring country. This time, we are seeing some positive moves by the Arab League toward more realization of the situation on Iraq.

As vacancy continues to tighten and developers maintain their current disciplined approach, lease rates are expected to continue drifting upward, presenting what may be the last opportunity for tenants to capitalize on favorable terms.

It's just drifting up today, there's no one catalyst,

It's a downward drift that's been going on to close to three months now. And there's no dynamic that brings it around for the moment, so we can keep on drifting down.

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind.

Consumer spending is avoiding the mall-based, high-priced stores and is now drifting rapidly to the discount and low-priced segment.

That horrific voyage is not unusual. Smugglers frequently beat their passengers or force them overboard while still well away from shore. UNHCR has in the past thanked the crews of passing ships who have saved people found drifting helplessly in the shark-infested waters.

It's very hard to stimulate enthusiasm. We keep drifting downward.

These people weren't trying to get away. They were just drifting in the water. You have a situation where you are 46 miles off shore. The sun goes down, there's no light. Something that small can be easily lost when there's no marker on it.

This is just drifting around. But the Nigeria situation, as the weeks wear on, is providing a firmer floor for the market.

In a while, one of us will go up to bedand the other one will follow.Then we will slip below the surface of the nightinto miles of water, drifting down and downto the dark, soundless bottomuntil the weight of dreams pulls us lower still.

In a while, one of us will go up to bed and the other one will follow. Then we will slip below the surface of the night into miles of water, drifting down and down to the dark, soundless bottom until the weight of dreams pulls us lower still.

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.

Claims have been drifting well below normal levels throughout the month. On the eve of the January payrolls report tomorrow, it could just indicate that a blowout (strong) number for payrolls could be in the cards.

He sees the Republican Party drifting far, far, far to the right on social issues and a lot of other things-- and he's not happy with it.

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

The unemployment rate on a month-to-month basis bounces around quite a lot. The trend is for a small downward drifting in the unemployment rate, reflecting as much people withdrawing from the labor market as anything else.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities after various regional markets find stable levels. It's looking like the Federal Reserve may be done with raising interest rates in the spring and rates will have peaked, removing the fear that they were going to keep drifting further up.

The (higher) temperatures will be short-lived come later in the afternoon. By (tonight) you will be seeing considerable blowing and drifting snow.

A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.

The dollar is drifting downwards. There is an inclination to sell dollars -- the current account deficit is the underlying concern. We need to see a big upward surprise in U.S. data to change the sentiment.

The drifting was very high and we kept clearing it and it kept blowing back. It was just the storm that kept going on and on.

The drop in continuing claims could be a sign that the unemployment rate could start drifting downward.

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

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.

The market is drifting downward with uncertainties in the market.

...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.