Gliding Quotes

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave!

I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

... 'I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything's gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it!'. [pp. 84-85]

I am extremely lucky; I've never been ill - although about 20 years ago I broke my right arm hang gliding.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.