Quotes About Fluidity

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is.

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute.

My child, you should practice for your mind to be like water. When people put fragrant oils or milk into the water, it does not rejoice, and when people put excrement, mud, or urine into the water, the water is not angry, because the water has a tremendous capacity of acceptance and transformation. Water can purify everything.

There is within this worldview a terrifying personal implication: that I myself have no fixed identity but am, like the rest of reality, essentially fluid—essentially inessential.

I paint differently every day. every hour. every minute. every instant.

For most people, truth is closely associated with with solidity, finality, permanence, universality, and security. But Jesus used the metaphor of "living water" for truth. [...] While we tend to visualize truth as some kind of sacred rock, Jesus visualized it as water: amorphous, adaptable, and incapable of being grasped.

My aim is to bring about a psychic state in which my patient begins to experiment with his own nature—a state of fluidity, change and growth, in which there is no longer anything eternally fixed and hopelessly petrified.

The difference between the sea and the land is that the sea is just.

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.

Feminism, like the ocean, is fluid, powerful, deep, and encompasses the infinite complexity of life; it moves in waves, currents, tides, and sometimes in storms. Like the ocean, feminism never stays quiet.

El patriarcado es pétreo. El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.

El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, Neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.

belongs anywhere, even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

I never like to stick to one media; whether it's a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

The nature of war is constant change.

Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.

There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.

All children in Madagascar were raised genderless and forbidden to choose a gender until reaching adulthood. Even then, many didn't choose a single state of being. Some, like Jerico, found fluidity to be their nature. "I feel like a woman beneath the sun and the stars. I feel like a man under the cover of clouds," Jerico had explained to the crew when assuming command. "A simple glance at the skies will let you know how to address me at any given time.