Quotes About Movement

Of all exercises walking is the best.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if your preparations for winter were adequate, and if you were ready for the restrictions of movement and light that were about to be upon you.

While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.

Every dance you know is an anti-grammar of another dance you do not know.

A man who falls into a fast-flowing river is wise to swim with the current.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another.

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

La herencia, la sugestión y otras causas externas los mueven de un lado a otro como peones en el tablero de ajedrez de la vida.

She felt grief move within her like a barefoot woman flitting through a dark house.

Touch' is a multi-faceted concept, reflecting the different types of receptors. The simplest are free nerve endings which detect pain and changes in temperature; slightly more complex are Merkel's tactile cells (which detect pressure); followed by Grandry bodies, which consist of two to four tactile cells and detect movement (velocity); and the lamellated Herbst corpuscles (similar to Vater-Pacinian corpuscles in mammals), which are sensitive to acceleration.

So how do we spread this good cheer?" "Maybe by skipping. Let's try skipping. You see someone skipping, and you wish wars would stop. Children skip all the time, but you become an adult and forget to skip. Let's skip.

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

It's no secret that I love dancing and music.

No talent lies in my dancing.

The biggest thing for me, I hate going to concerts where no-one's moving. Everyone should be dancing and having a good time.

I believe we've got to be able to make some noise to create change.