Quotes About Movement

Imogen stood on her right foot and pulled the left boot off. She was

When you sing, think of birds. When you dance, think of fish (Or snakes. Doesn't matter.). When you play music, think of water, and when you act, think of god.

He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented movement so exquisite and fluid it coaxed our souls out of our bodies to dance with him, weightless in the perfume of divinity.

The whole world, as we're coming to understand, is quivering in its place.

It is not how you walk, or where, or how far. It is all in the sound of the steps and how the night receives them.

The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

We had become a pirate nation, moving on a huge scale under our own flag, with lawyers, clowns, attendants.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

hitching your wagon blindly to any standards movement is rarely a good idea.

Make good or make tracks.

Life is like checkers. When you reach the top, you can move wherever you want.

Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.

Could animals have migrated to a part of the world they were previously familiar with (latitude and longitude)? We've always wondered this. If a continent ended up at a particular place on the globe, and migratory animals thrived in those former areas before continental movement, is it possible that some attempted to migrate back to that original latitude and longitude?

Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that's exactly what we need.

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

You dance as you walk through life. If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you don't lift up from this Earth.

It would be easy to get the idea from all this that Mimosa is some kind of genius, a veritable Einstein among vegetables. But there's no evidence for this at all. The reason all this work has focused on Mimosa is simply that its ability to move (and fast) makes it a convenient experimental subject, which in turn reveals just what a hasty bunch we are; other plants may well be smarter than Mimosa , but until very recently biologists had generally decided that it would take too long to find out.

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward.

I was a leaf that had released its hold on the tree. This was my moment of motion, of flight – my solitary dance through the air, separate from my billion twins. No longer green and faceless on the tree, not yet crushed and decomposing on the forest floor.

We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.

These moments move fast, if they are going to move at all, and with no superfluous nonsense. If they don't move, they die.

What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.

Why waste energy with wasted movements?] Very commonly, tightening and furrowing the brow while concentrating... Is the brain a muscle that works better by tensing the skull?