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Quotes About Movement

Los movimientos populistas se nutren del descrédito de los partidos políticos y de la ineficacia de los gobiernos. Diría más: del descrédito de la política y de los políticos.
~ Héctor Aguilar Camín
the refugees leave a refuge, enter a refuge run to the windows, what they see makes them move on, they move, refuge means move, move moves on into madness, my book I say is on the move, we are moving each other
~ Helene Cixous
To us this ladder has a descending movement, because the ascent , which evokes effort and difficulty, is toward the bottom. I say ascent downward because we ordinarily believe the descent is easy. The writers I love are descenders , explorers of the lowest and deepest.
~ Helene Cixous
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A movement had begun, and the discovery of universality spurred it forward. In the summer of 1977, two physicists, Joseph Ford and Giulio Casati, organized the first conference on a science called chaos. It was held in a gracious villa in Como, Italy
~ James Gleick
Scaling also became part of a movement in physics that led, more directly than Mandelbrot's own work, to the discipline known as chaos.
~ James Gleick
All tall trees are wise, according to the West African teacher Malidoma Somé, because their movement is imperceptible, the connection between above and below so firm, their physical presence so generously useful.
~ James Hillman
From the time we're born and until we die. We spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives. So where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It was always unpleasant, moving like this; it always brought home to you the essential rootlessness of yourself and all men like you, always on the move, never really stopping anywhere, never really home.
~ James Jones
Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic.
~ James Joyce
I am, a stride at a time
~ James Joyce
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.
~ James Joyce
The whores would be just coming out of their houses making ready for the night, yawning lazily after their sleep and settling the hairpins in their clusters of hair. He would pass by them calmly waiting for a sudden movement of his own will or a sudden call to his sinloving soul from their soft perfumed flesh.
~ James Joyce
A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.
~ James Joyce
When a demand for intelligent sympathy goes unanswered he is a too stern disciplinarian who blames himself for having offered a dullard an opportunity to participate in the warmer movement of a more highly organised life.
~ James Joyce
But it's the life of Paris, that's the thing. Ah, there's no city like Paris for gaiety, movement, excitement...
~ James Joyce
pocket-book packetboat, gapman gunrun;
~ James Joyce
He turned his face over a shoulder, rere regardant. Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship.
~ James Joyce
O mic? trup? de ??rani napolitani îÈ™i repetau paÈ™ii de dans în cap?tul capelei, unii rotindu-È™i braÈ›ele deasupra capetelor, alÈ›ii leg?nându-È™i coÈ™urile cu violete de hârtie È™i f?când reverenÈ›e.
~ James Joyce
nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants.
~ James Joyce
It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible.
~ James Joyce
Llegan, las olas. Los hipocampos crestiblancos, tascando, embridados en fúlgidos céfiros, los corceles de Mananaan.
~ James Joyce
go with the wind, all of us twirling among young people who wore flowers in their hair, a church bell clanging without stop in a Spanish mission. Roll on forever, Woody.
~ James Lee Burke
She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.
~ James Lileks