Quotes About Movement

Her back was straight, she moved with enormous, fragile dignity.

The music was sinuous, insistent. She was moving with it again, swaying silver like a sleeping fish in its current.

Julia laughed and picked up the pace and for a while we swung along in the opposite step, hip to hip, her right leg moving out with my left, so I could feel her boot hit the ground, feel it through the soles of my feet, up to my calves, in my pelvis. It didn't last, of course. My legs are longer.

She felt hot, then cold, then nothing at all, like a bubble rising through water, then floating, then lifting free.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

La terrasse bruisse d'un va-et-vient de tons montants, descendants, neutres qui font comme des exclamations et des glissades d'eau au milieu du chant des oiseaux.

We cannot hope for change, without action.

Brownian motion, the movement of a tiny smoke particle due to the constant bombardment of millions of invisible air molecules, traces a fractal path with dimension close to 2.

And for long years to come I am destined by some strange fate to walk hand in hand with my odd heroes, to gaze at life in its vast movement, to gaze upon it through laughter seen by the world and tears unseen and unknown by it!

They had an almost irresistible tendency to degenerate into a kind of lolloping amble.

Ah,steeds,steeds,what is steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

Perhaps I would not have rushed back to England if only I'd been told how Colleen died. But it was the kind of news, posing the kind of question, that prevented sitting still. The only thing I could bear was being on the move.

What if the most traumatic or the most beautiful experiences we have trap us in a kind of feedback loop, where at least some part of our minds remain obsessed, even as our bodies move on?

hears the apartment door close, then the sound of her heels on the staircase. He stands staring at the house on television. Bill Cunningham, looking energized, says: "—movement in an upstairs window

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

I am like a leaf on a river, riding along the top of the water, not quite floating, not quite drowning. So I can't stop, and I can't control the direction I am going. I can feel the water, but I never know which way I am heading.

But now remember, my dear. Don't try so hard. You'll see. In life you move toward the things you like and away from what you don't," Gretchen said. "It's that easy?" I asked her. Her arm was so skinny and fragile, but I could feel her weight like determination. "Yes, it's that easy," she said. Then she laughed. "The hard part is to just keep moving.

Spring. The green dance, from the smallest roadside plant in a vertical upsurge, to trees bursting in leaf, swaying to morning skies woven in rainbows of returning birds, from the mystical white transformation of ice and snow in bays to the miracle and movement of water. I am stillness, I am dance; I am death, I am life. Know this for what you are. Everything moves.

9. Random movements provide variation that leads to developmental breakthroughs. Monumental gains, Feldenkrais discovered, are made not by mechanical movement but by the opposite—random movements. Children learn to roll over, crawl, sit, and walk through experimentation. Most babies learn to roll over, for instance, when they follow something with their eyes that interests them, then follow it so far that, to their surprise, they roll over.

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

Every time the brain is used, four components are triggered: motor movement, thought, sensation, and feeling. Under normal circumstances, we don't experience one without the other three.*