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Quotes About Movement

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
~ Alice Hoffman
From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour.
~ Alice Meynell
Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.
~ Channing Tatum
We'd better get going." Caramon glanced around uneasily. "We show up like a jewel in a gypsy dancer's navel.
~ Margaret Weis
Esos ríos fluyen depreisa, se derraman como si la tierra se inclinara
~ Marguerite Duras
No se trata de que sea necesario conseguir algo, sino de que es necesario salirse de donde se está
~ Marguerite Duras
Correva verso il lago con un volo costante che non pareva corrispondere alla misura del passo umano
~ Maria Bellonci
The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet, sometimes miles and miles, so that at the end of the day, when the sun sets, the face of the desert is completely different from the landscape it had in the morning when the sun rose on it.
~ Marian Keyes
To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.
~ Marian Keyes
what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.
~ Marianne Wiggins
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.
~ Marilynne Robinson
My mother was happy that day, we did not know why. And if she was sad the next, we did not know why. And if she was gone the next, we did not know why. It was as if she righted herself continually against some current that never ceased to pull. She swayed continuously, like a thing in water, and it was graceful, a slow dance, a sad and heady dance
~ Marilynne Robinson
The wind blows a milkweed puff and two seeds do not fly.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio , and acted upon, the male is actio , the mover.
~ Marina Warner
Simply put, Leonardo replaced the mystic black bile, faculties, and spirits that permeated the writings of Galen, Avicenna, de Luzzi, and others, with his physical powers of movement, weight, force, and percussion - the building blocks of mechanics. he further used these mechanical concepts to demystify a whole host of physiological processes.
~ Mario Livio
amaba tanto las ideas y se movía en ellas con tanta solvencia, fuera un convencido de que son éstas las que deben someterse si entran en contradicción con la realidad humana, pues, cuando ocurre al revés, las calles se llenan de guillotinas y paredones de fusilamiento y comienza el reinado de los censores y los policías.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
ojos profundos y de luz vivísima y se movía en el agua como un pez.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
No era más correcto tratar de extender y de radicalizar el movimiento?
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.
~ Marisha Pessl
The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.
~ Marjane Satrapi
For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it.
~ Marjane Satrapi
She had joined the Viet Cong herself four years earlier, its Young Pioneer Organization.
~ Mark Bowden