Quotes About Movement

Dance is movement, and movement is life.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.

If you don't go and do something in life, nothing happens.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.

It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

Lying down, I close my eyes.  I see an abyss that opens vertiginously, like an endless pit that deepens, looking into a kind of uncontrollable water, which widens itself with hallucinatory speed, and I'm dragged into this movement; delirium of simplest cosmogony, a birth-giving abyss indefinitely itself.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.