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Quotes About Movement

Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.
~ Anonymous
Movable feasts.
~ Anonymous
Look how she moves! It's like Jell-O on springs.
~ Anonymous
A horse is poetry in motion.
~ Anonymous
Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.
~ Anonymous
Jumping for joy is good exercise.
~ Anonymous
Time is a river without banks.
~ Anonymous
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
~ Anonymous
Thou shalt see the mountains that thou supposest fixed, passing by like clouds.
~ Anonymous
Os barcos ancorados remexiam com moleza as ancas.
~ António Lobo Antunes
In brief, images were advantageous even if an organism were not conscious of the images formed within it. The organism would not yet be capable of subjectivity and would be unable to inspect the images in its own mind, but still the images could automatically guide the execution of a movement; the movement would be more precise in terms of its target and succeed rather than fail.
~ António R. Damásio
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
~ Anthony Bourdain
It isn't falling in that causes you to drown, it's staying in.
~ Anthony de Mello
The Japanese have a nice way of putting it: "The day you cease to travel, you will have arrived.
~ Anthony de Mello
Did time move forward, through people, or did people move through it like clouds across the sky?
~ Anthony Doeer
She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog.
~ Anthony Doerr
Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.
~ Anthony Doerr
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.
~ Anthony Doerr
He found himself thinking of water, how it is never still, how even in our bodies water never relents: ceaselessly vibrating, each electron in each molecule in each cell orbiting, spinning, nine independent vectors of position and force, a rapture of movement.
~ Anthony Doerr
But the moonlight stays unmoved by the wind, passing through clouds, through air, in what seems to Werner like impossibly slow, imperturbable rays. They hang across the buckling grass. Why doesn't the wind move the light?
~ Anthony Doerr
Claude understands that he ought to resent them, but he admires their competence and manners, the clean efficiency with which they move. They always seem to be going somewhere and never doubt that it is the right place to be going. Something his own country has lacked.
~ Anthony Doerr
The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.
~ Anthony Doerr
The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world of light?
~ Anthony Doerr
The waves continue on their anonymous journeys.
~ Anthony Doerr