Flotsam Quotes

• Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Great Minds, Masterpiece

  Marcel Proust (1958). “By Way of Sainte-Beuve: (Contre Sainte-Beuve)”

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• I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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  Me niego a aceptar la idea de que la humanidad está tan trágicamente atada a la medianoche sin estrellas del racismo y la guerra que el brillante amanecer de la paz y la fraternidad nunca podrá hacerse realidad... Creo que la verdad desarmada y el amor incondicional tendrán la última palabra.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Amor, Fe, Paz

  "50 años después de recibir el Premio Nobel, ¿siguen resonando las profecías de paz de Martin Luther King?", www.foxnews.com. 12 de octubre de 2014.

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• We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

  Gillian Flynn

  Style, Different, Culture

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• Me niego a aceptar la idea de que el hombre es mera chatarra en el río de la vida, incapaz de influir en el desarrollo de los acontecimientos que le rodean. Me niego a aceptar la idea de que la humanidad está tan trágicamente atada a la medianoche sin estrellas del racismo y la guerra que el brillante amanecer de la paz y la fraternidad nunca podrá hacerse realidad.

  Martin Luther

  Change, War, Reality

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• Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Rivers, Growing, Language

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• Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Geography, Stage

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

  Roger Daltrey

  Good Life, People, Good People

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• La historia biográfica, tal y como se enseña en nuestras escuelas públicas, sigue siendo en gran medida una historia de cabezas huecas; reyes y reinas ridículos, líderes políticos paranoicos, viajeros compulsivos, ignorantes en general de los restos y desechos de las corrientes históricas. Los hombres que cambiaron radicalmente la historia, los grandes científicos y matemáticos, apenas se mencionan, si es que se mencionan.

  Martin Gardner

  Reinas, Reyes, Enseñanza

  "Aventuras de un matemático", por Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. 9 de mayo de 1976.

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• You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you ever think if poeple heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

  Wendy Mass

  Thinking, Locks, Pretending

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• The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Sea

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books

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• Me niego a aceptar la opinión... de que el brillante amanecer de la paz y la fraternidad nunca podrá hacerse realidad.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Paz, Reyes, Amor incondicional

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). "The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings", p.116, Beacon Press.

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• Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

  Wendy Mass

  Divertido, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Confused, Ambition

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• Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Change, Thinking, One Day

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• Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Study, Human Nature

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). "El jardín de la mujer de un viajero"

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• It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

  Antoine Predock

  America, Venice, Energy

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• There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came into your life as impulsive flotsam and jetsam and never found a good exit. Whether you're aware of it or not, this clutter creates indecision and distractions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Home, Exit, Needs

  "La semana laboral de 4 horas: Escapa del 9-5, vive donde quieras y únete a los nuevos ricos". Libro de Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Sueño, Estrellas, Hombres

  Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat”

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• Cuando una vez atribuyes efectos a la voluntad de un Dios personal, has dejado entrar a un montón de pequeños dioses y malvados - entonces duendecillos, hadas, dríadas, náyades, brujas, fantasmas y duendes, pues tu imaginación se tambalea, alborotada, ebria, a flote sobre los restos flotantes de la superstición. Lo que sabes no cuenta. Sólo crees, y cuanto más crees, más te envaneces de que el miedo y la fe son superiores a la ciencia y a la visión.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Evil, Drunk

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• The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Loss, Thinking

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• The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Years, Political

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

  Julian Assange

  Sea, Bridges, Support

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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