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Quotes About Movement

what kept coming back to me was that one word gift. Receiving, and then passing it along. Opening up to power and force and energy way beyond me, letting it move through me.
~ Rob Bell
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running." —Jimi Hendrix Soundtrack:
~ Rob Spillman
John Renbourn, Sir John Alot of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte (1968); Shirley Collins, The Power of the True Love Knot (1968); Shirley and Dolly Collins, Anthems in Eden (1969). The Early Music movement as we know it today began in practice
~ Rob Young
He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
~ Robert A. Caro
Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Citizens are urged to tolerate cheerfully any minor inconvenience this may cause them; your right of privacy will be respected in every way possible; your right of free movement may be interrupted temporarily, but full economic restitution will be made.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Imagine a billiard table without players. Nobody hits any balls. No earthquake shakes the room. No magnet exists, hidden under the table. Yet suddenly Ball A at one end of the table turns clockwise and Ball B at the other end of the table turns counterclockwise.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It is curious, in passing, that the Women's Liberation Movement, the latest and most revolutionary of these waves, is paradoxically more patrist than much of what preceded it
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Suki and I danced a
~ Robert B. Parker
One of the many foolish things about the fools who compare writing about music to dancing about architecture is that dancing usually is about architecture. When bodies move in relation to a designed space, be it stage or ballroom or living room or gymnasium or agora or Congo Square, they comment on that space
~ Robert Christgau
And once a beachhead is established, it is crucial to push inland as quickly as possible. The idea is not simply to seize a beach but to take enemy-held territory.
~ Robert Coram
Waiters and busboys flowed in and out of the kitchen, and walked on tightropes between the tables.
~ Robert Crais
people worked us across the plaza and down to the parking structure. I moved with the crush of bodies the way a leaf is carried by the wind, a part of an unseen world, yet not.
~ Robert Crais
Pike tapped Jon's leg, and Jon rolled on, cruising back to their cars. Everything moved quickly after their brief reconnoiter, which was how Pike liked it. Speed was good. In armed confrontations, speed was the difference between life and death. Cole
~ Robert Crais
The arrows. What they mean is, you control who you are by moving forward, never back; you move forward. That's what I do. That's what we're going to do.
~ Robert Crais
Larkin pushed the accelerator and felt the wind lift her hair. She bore south on Vine, then east on Wilshire, laughing as her eyes grew wet. Light poles flicked past; red or green, it didn't matter and she didn't care. Honking horns were lost in the rush. Her long hair, the color of pennies, whipped and lashed. She closed her eyes, held them closed, kept them shut even longer, then popped them wide and laughed that she still flew straight and true—
~ Robert Crais
The line storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day,...
~ Robert Frost
He moves in darkness as it seems to me Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
~ Robert Frost
but the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers.
~ Kenneth Grahame
The obvious never moves markets; surprises almost always do.
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
Was that what it meant to be alive—moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step?
~ Kevin Brockmeier
Their faces are like sunlight on water, a thousand tumbling jacks of white and silver.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
The central thing that Winslow could remember from this tme was the feeling of satisfaction he had, all the ride down with Carole King for company. As far as he could take it. As far as he could go. Something at least would happen next and this part would be over. He could feel the same movement starting up inside him, the same gathering wave, and wondered where it would leave him this time. Nothing to do, though. Nothing to do but wait and see.
~ Kevin Canty
slithered across the slippery decks, which flew up and plunged down below their
~ Kevin Jackson