Quotes About Fluidity

In those days we weren't always singular, but rode the sea of consciousness like bubbles overlapped.

I settle on nothing; I decide nothing. This is not a final place. There is no such place.

It's what you were to me, liquid, meandering. Love's object .

and half-formed faces float out and vanish too undulating to be actual

It does little good to forecast the future of semiconductors or energy, or the future of the family (even one's own family), if the forecast springs from the premise that everything else will remain unchanged. For nothing will remain unchanged. The future is fluid, not frozen. It is constructed by our shifting and changing daily decisions, and each event influences all others.

Si soy agua, ¿qué sentido tiene decirte que sí, que voy a casarme contigo? Ésa sí sería una mentira. El agua no puede retenerse. Sí, te regaré, te prodigaré con mi riqueza, te refrescaré, saciaré tu sed, pero qué sé yo lo que será el curso de mi río, nunca te bañarás dos veces en la misma novia. 

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

Positions do not really matter.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

Good balance makes you a better dancer, musician, actor - anything.

I'm the kind of person who jumps around when he talks because everything is connected.

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one's gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.

That is the power of formlessness — it gives the aggressor nothing to react against, nothing to hit.

Caroline said easily, amazed all over again at this sudden facility she'd developed, the fluidity and ease of her lies.

capital, having considerably more liquidity than water, slid

water talk you are water I'm water we're all water in different containers that's why it's so easy to meet someday we'll evaporate together. but even after the water's gone we'll probably point out to the containers and say, "that's me there, that one" we're container minders

Lady Sylvia flapped across the room like an opaque protoplasm propelling itself over a sand-bank.

I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation.

Julieta looks at me, and then she laughs. 'Your boundaries are made from sand, Sofia.' 'Yes,' I say. 'I know that.