#drift

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#decision #default #drift #less #more

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#adrift #alone #beginning #common #individuals

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#drifting #focus #hardly #hour #i

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#catastrophe #changed #drift #everything #modes

I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike. ↗

— Randy Travis

#away #back #blues #coming #country

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. ↗

— Mae West

#drifted #i #snow #snow white #used

When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#between #calls #doing #drifts #guy

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London. ↗

— Alex Winter

#change #drifted #i #just #la