Quotes About Movement

Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gesthemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

To make some sense of life –to prevent ourselves from going mad– we have one ready means of escape, and that is to dance while we can.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Human life is insignificant. What's ominous is the movement of the spheres. When I settled here, a sun speck sat on the doorjamb at two in the afternoon. Thirty-six days passed. The speck jumped to the next room. The earth had completed another leg of its journey. The little sun speck, a child's plaything, reminds us of eternity.

Why is a worm so effective? Because it is always moving.

Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

to put it in the modern parlance, this is a re-run. We have been here before. This is like watching TV in Bombay or Kingston or Dhaka, watching the same old British sitcoms spewed out to the old colonies in one tedious, eternal loop. Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - something to do with that experience of moving West to East or East to West or island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round.

for a great dancer has no time, no generation, he moves eternally through the world, so that any dancer in any age may recognize him.

Marilyn Monroe was pretty far along that curve, as close as one can come to dancing while still walking. In her classic 1953 movie Niagara she takes a legendary walk away from the camera, hips swinging—roiling—in a mode long since memorialized by catwalk models, drag queens, prima donnas, freaks and queers, street punks of all persuasions.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another. Don't look for me!

The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.

But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane.

Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

you switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen.

She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.

Daisy is a walking drum tune. You can almost hear it by looking at the way she walks.

Dey gointuh make 'miration 'cause mah love didn't work lak they love, if dey ever had any. Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there.

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.

I love being active.

It's cool to stay active and keep my body going.