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Quotes About Movement

Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.
~ Pema Chodron
En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
He had to keep moving. It didn't matter in which direction.
~ Pete Hautman
Many of the roads loosely known as 'Roman roads' are much more ancient; the Romans simply made use of the prehistoric paths. Modern roads have been built along the routes of these ancient lines, so that we still move in the footsteps of our ancestors.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Tengo ganas de andar, simplemente andar. No puedo hacer ya otra cosa.
~ Peter Handke
Texts are musical in that they take time, and the time texts take is musical time. The time of music and the time of texts always involve reaching for the next moment. Music is always moving toward the next note, and we are always reading beyond the individual word. Each sentence compels us to move forward; each paragraph carries us along to the denouement.
~ Unknown
Like water, it slowed my descent. Like water, it gave me a feeling of buoyancy.
~ Peter Lerangis
There is more empty space in the book you're holding, than book. The electrons in the atoms of the book are moving so fast, they give the illusion of solid ink on solid paper. It's not. It's just an illusion. If all the electrons would stop moving for even an instant, the book would not just crumble into dust, it would disappear. Poof
~ Peter McWilliams
Rhythm is what we beat our feet to. It is "the time relationship between tunes.
~ Unknown
Shadows would be moving inside shadows; daggers would be unsheathed; the air would get gray and chill with stealth and intrigue; blood would spurt. And the sleeping would do well to stir.
~ Philip José Farmer
He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god
~ Philip K. Dick
Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.
~ Philip K. Dick
Ruh, farkl? renklerdeki ???klar boyunca rasgele hareket ediyordu, her renk farkl? tür bir rahmi, farkl? bir yeniden doÄŸuÅŸu simgeliyordu. Bütün kötü rahimlerden uzak durup sonunda aç?k beyaz ????a gelmek göçmüÅŸ ruhun iÅŸiydi. Bunu Nicholas'a anlatmaya karar verdim, çünkü kafas? zaten yeterince kar???kt?.
~ Philip K. Dick
I am like a gray thing, he thought. Bustling along with the currents of air that tumble me, that roll me, like a gray puffball, on and on.
~ Philip K. Dick
Without war the lower elements of mankind have increased all out of proportion. They threaten the educated few, those with scientific knowledge and training, the ones equipped to direct society. They have no regard for science or a scientific society, based on reason. And this Movement seeks to aid and abet them. Only when scientists are in full control can the—
~ Philip K. Dick
A rolling stone gathers no moss
~ Philip K. Dick
The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. Go well, Lyra; bless you, child, bless you. Keep your own counsel.
~ Philip Pullman
Perhaps some particles move backward in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are.
~ Philip Pullman
The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
~ Philip Pullman
All these things that are changing…like ice breaking under your feet.
~ Philip Pullman
Lord Asriel was a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter. It was a face to be dominated by, or to fight: never a face to patronize or pity. All his movements were large and perfectly balanced, like those of a wild animal, and when he appeared in a room like this, he seemed a wild animal held in a cage too small for it.
~ Philip Pullman
she hopped and darted to and fro like a bird in a berry bush, trilling and twittering a series of notes as liquidly bright as a cardinal's song
~ Philip Roth
Sono le onde a far sì che il mare non sia solo un enorme pozzanghera.
~ David Foster Wallace
Sampras, por otro lado, parece flotar como si fuera caspa por toda la pista. Philippoussis es como un ejército de tierra grande y terrible; Sampras es más naval, más de la escuela de acercarse con sigilo y rodear al rival. Philippoussis es oligárquico: él tiene su voluntad y busca imponerla. Sampras es más democrático, es decir, más caótico y también más humano.
~ David Foster Wallace