movement quotes

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

I don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

I love movement. I love moshing.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.