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Floating Quotes

On things left to drift, literally and otherwise.

Floating can describe currency markets, ocean waves, or a half-formed plan, and this set gathers quotes across all of it, weighing air and water imagery alike.

When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital flows in, a freely floating exchange rate rises sharply, wreaking havoc for domestic banks and exporters alike.

Quotes by Zanny Minton Beddoes

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

Quotes by Vitruvius

There is an audition floating around somewhere that I did for 'Bates Motel.'

Quotes by Timothee Chalamet

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

Quotes by Thaksin Shinawatra

Able Quotes

Although floating and fixed rates appear dissimilar, they are members of the same freemarket family. Both operate without exchange controls and are free-market mechanisms for balance-of-payment adjustments.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

I'm not like, 'I act.' I'm like, 'I'm kinda floating. I kinda did this movie; it was kinda like going to camp, and I don't really know what any of this means!'

Quotes by Sasha Lane

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

Quotes by Sally Ride

'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

Quotes by Pamela Sargent

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Quotes by Lord Mountbatten

Act Quotes

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Quotes by George Seaton

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

Quotes by Donovan

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Quotes by Cher

Frequently Asked Questions

What different meanings of 'floating' appear in these quotes?
The collection covers floating exchange rates in economics, wind described as a floating wave of air, and even literal corpses floating at sea.
How do the quotes describe floating exchange rates?
One quote explains that when financial sectors are small and capital is highly mobile, floating exchange rates create sharp currency volatility, especially with foreign capital inflows.
Is floating used in a more casual, uncertain sense here?
Yes, one quote mentions an audition floating around somewhere, using the word to describe something unresolved or unclaimed rather than physically adrift.
Do any quotes use floating in a poetic, natural way?
One describes wind as a floating wave of air with continually varying undulation, a lyrical, almost scientific image of movement.
What's a good related collection to browse?
Try air quotes for more elemental imagery, or attention quotes for a different kind of focus.

Related reading includes quotes on staying able to adapt through uncertainty, or the attention collection for what deserves focus instead.