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Quotes About Moving

It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.
~ Haruki Murakami
The old temporality is losing its effectiveness and moving into the background. Many people go on mumbling the old words, but in the light of the newly revealed sun, the meanings of words are shifting rapidly and are being renewed. Even supposing that most of the new meanings are temporary things that will persist only through sundown that day, we will be spending time and moving forward with them.
~ Haruki Murakami
I moved and felt like a zombie, only without the flesh-eating joy that seems to drive zombies around neighborhoods like Jehovah's Witnesses.
~ Haven Kimmel
Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
~ Simon Schama
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
~ Debra Winger
The day-to-day microaggressions that we all face, yeah, you have to let some stuff slide, or you go, 'I gotta keep moving; there's bigger fish to fry.' It's something that I still deal with. But I've tried to have the audacity of equality and to follow my heart in those moments where I feel like something is wrong.
~ Hasan Minhaj
The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.
~ Graham Potter
The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.
~ Tariq Ali
For employers, mobility no longer means merely traditional expatriate placements, but moving jobs to where talented people are located.
~ Alain Dehaze
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.
~ Juan Felipe Herrera
I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.
~ Motsi Mabuse
My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose.
~ Nicolas Cage
I basically make my living writing songs, so I've been able to go around in my trailer. If I got tired of a place, I could move on and roam around. It's a nice environment for writing songs, as opposed to sitting at a recording studio console all day.
~ J. J. Cale
I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
~ Laura Bell Bundy
For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
~ Kat Edmonson
This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.
~ Sonja Sohn
Life moves on and so should we.
~ Spencer Johnson
Life moves on and so should we
~ Spencer Johnson
Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.
~ Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand
But this is deception. It's moving very fast, and just because you can't see and feel it, doesn't mean it's not the truth.
~ Roderick Vincent, The Cause
Truth for him was a moving target he never aimed for the bull and rarely pierced the outer ring.
~ Hugh Cudlipp
keep things moving but she was missing in action. He didn't want to call her cell in case she was still in session with Dr. Hinojos
~ Michael Connelly
they nevertheless suggested that evolutionary pressures were moving the human race toward ever-greater conformity.
~ Michael Crichton