Ryan Coogler

I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.

American Director

Jeff Carlson

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

American Author

Andrew O'Hagan

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.

Scottish Novelist

Georges Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

French Novelist

Rhiannon Giddens

I always felt culturally adrift as a child because I'm mixed race. I've had to deal with that since I was little. Who am I? What makeup do I have? What are the black and the white?

American Musician

Monty Don

I loathe nowheres - airports and bland hotels. I would rather be in an unpleasant, uncomfortable place rather than one just adrift, floating around.

English Celebrity

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

American Poet

Walter Mosley

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

American Novelist

Francis Parker Yockey

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

American Writer

Ed O'Neill

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

American Actor

Use 'adrift' to describe something physically floating without direction, often at sea.

Physical Displacement

'Adrift' implies an object or person has lost its controlling force, like a rudder or leader.

Loss of Control

Describes a feeling of being lost or without clear direction in life or a situation.

Emotional State

'Adrift' suggests uncertainty about what comes next or how to proceed.

Uncertain Future

When used as adverb, 'adrift' characterizes the motion and position of floating objects.

Movement and Place

Use 'adrift' to describe an unexpected change resulting in free movement.

Emergent Action

 social freedom sucks. The unrooted man is the adrift man. The unrooted man is the unremembered man, because he's uncommitted to things. Freedom is not an ocean you want to swim in, it's a river you want to get across, so you can commit and plant yourself on the other side. The second thing I learned

The lies our culture...

 and unusual in our two-legged approach to life. Now, if you want to understand what happened then when the continents broke apart, and dinosaurs found -- landlubbers, as they are -- found themselves adrift. There's some missing puzzle pieces.

Paul Sereno: What can...

 With so many of us shell-shocked and adrift about what has happened to us, we're going to have to build up from the grassroots, forming what I think are resilience circles. These are small groups of people coming together

An honest look at the...

 but most of them didn't. And -- given my history, it was more than I could've hoped for -- forgiveness and the benefit of the doubt. It still amazes me. I spent my first year away from home adrift with my younger sister,

I grew up in the...

 of adrift in the world he depended on his father for his financial stability there's no longer any hope that he can go to England to get the kind of education that many people of his standing in society would expect

Founding Father's Real...

 When it was clear that nobody in our generation wanted to take on the heavy burden of ranching, the ranch was sold to a neighbor. The anchor of our lives was cut, and we felt adrift in the absence of that land.

Let's make the world...

 Everyone said the path to happiness was success, so I searched for that ideal job, that perfect boyfriend, that beautiful apartment. But instead of ever feeling fulfilled, I felt anxious and adrift.

There's more to life...

 if we use it. We have deep talents of inventiveness and exploration -- if we apply them. We are brave enough to invent things we've never seen before. Lose those skills, and we are adrift.

The human skills we need...

 It's easy to feel helpless, out of control, adrift. But at the end of the day, try letting go of what you can't control and just focus on what you can control.

3 Lessons on Hope in...

 but they still need water for one thing to breed each crab is carrying a pouch of precious eggs and now she has to cast on adrift