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Quotes About Fluidity

As a culture, we are realizing that gender is no longer a fixed concept
~ Sam Cheow
ojos profundos y de luz vivísima y se movía en el agua como un pez.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
~ Mark Doty
Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can't bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will cease to innovate, and then stagnate, and then decline, very fast. As American universities, British playwrights, and Australian judges once understood, the 'safe space' is where cultures go to die.
~ Mark Steyn
Water is indifferent in this way to the objects which fall into it. It does not weigh them; it is they which weigh themselves, after a certain time of oscillation.
~ Simone Weil
Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.
~ Rana Dasgupta, Solo
Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water.
~ Kamand Kojouri
Spirits, when they please,Can either sex assume, or both.
~ John Milton
If we don't begin with a rigid plan, it is hard to make a mistake.
~ Ellen J. Langer
to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
~ Ellen Meloy
Rigidity causes inflexibility to a change. Therefore, be less rigid in all your undertakings in order to be or become more flexible to adopt and adapt to a change. Besides that, it's often ideal to be less rigid and more flexible.
~ Emeasoba George
De ce nu putem r?mâne închiÈ™i în noi înÈ™ine? De ce umbl?m dup? expresie È™i dup? form?, încercând s? ne golim de conÈ›inuturi È™i s? sistematiz?m un proces haotic È™i rebel? N-ar fi mai fecund? o abandonare în fluiditatea noastr? interioar?, f?r? gândul unei obiectiv?ri, sorbind doar cu o voluptate intim? toate fierberile È™i agitaÈ›iile l?untrice?
~ Emil Cioran
these people, struggling so hard to impose a shape on a life when life has no shape
~ Banana Yoshimoto
The rudimentary being inspired with vitality, progresses; its fluid parts thicken, its soft parts become firm, membrane changes into cartilage, and cartilage into bone, bone hardens and is welded into neighboring bones, the entire being advances towards solidification.
~ baring gould sabine viii
Be a drop, a stream, or a raging river—it doesn't matter which form you take, as long as you remain in the flow
~ Baron Baptiste
If I know where I want to play before I receive the ball, it's easier. It's more fluid.
~ Raphael Varane
The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.
~ Dan Pena
I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.
~ Corey Taylor
The hardest for me is rings because it is a lot more strength-oriented, while all the other events are about fluidity and flexibility. It's the one event that doesn't coincide with the fluidity, which is my strength.
~ Sam Mikulak
He rarely spoke about his job, and even more rarely expressed an opinion about men and their institutions. He distrusted ideas, as they were always too rigid to reflect reality, which, as he knew from experience, was very fluid. It was only with his friend Pardon, the doctor from Rue Popincourt, that he sometimes, after dinner, came out with what might, at a pinch, pass for revelations.
~ Georges Simenon
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
~ Frank Gehry
From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.
~ Issey Miyake
One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
~ Carlo Ratti
Time in West Africa is not a linear measurement. It can be free-flowing or motionless, but it is never a constant. Time in Africa is personalized, divided and defined on an individual basis.
~ Sarah Erdman