Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.
Quotes about bobbing (6 Quotes)
This market has no leadership. It's like a rudderless ship, bobbing up and down on the ocean. What's up one day, is down the next,
We played all kinds of games like bobbing for apples, ... I don't get to do that, it was amazing. I took it so seriously.
Die by your own sword. Live by your principles. ... If you forget what's important to you, you'll be like a cork bobbing on the ocean.
Surviving a downturn is a bit like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel when you hit bottom, you're either dead or happily bobbing in calmer waters.
I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.