Quotes About Fluidity

It was hard to see where all this could possibly go when it melted.

I am shifting rivermist, not to be trusted.

Most of us see ourselves as corks floating in a stream … [T]his is yet another frozen view. According to this … , everything … changes except the cork. While we generally admit to changes in our body, our mind, our thoughts, our feelings, our understandings, and our beliefs, we still believe 'I myself don't change. I'm still me. … an unchanging cork in an ever-changing stream.' This is precisely what we believe the self to be – something that doesn't change.

The combination of water's fluidity and solubility makes it marvelously adept at creating new networks of elements, as they churn through the ever-shifting medium, colliding with each other in unpredictable ways. At the same time, the strength of the hydrogen bonds means that new combinations with some stability to them—many of them anchored around carbon atoms—can endure and seek out additional connections in the soup.

OCEAN TIDES (1632)

Radical Pragmatics – "words are fluid, and can mean different things in different circumstances. […] And what we draw upon in memory is not a lexicon of definitions but a network of associations among words and the kinds of events and actors they typically convey.

Whatever is flexible and living will tend to grow; whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

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It is not balance you need but adaptability.

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

In many cases, it's a choice. There are many, many human beings through history - millions and millions and millions - who have been both homosexual at times in their lives and then heterosexual, or vice-versa, or bisexual. How can it be a biological imperative if people can change?

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

But what is character? How solid? We cut our hair, we shave our beards, we lose a limb. We remain ourselves. In dreams, however, we swap identities licentiously. We sabotage the structures of our character without a thought. None