Moving Quotes

8564 quotes by 5015 authors

A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved. — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
The physical and emotional health of an entire generation and the economic health and security of our nation is at stake. This isn't the kind… — Michelle Obama
When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or… — Jane Hirshfield
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous… — Unknown Author
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of… — Damon Albarn
In fact, Christianity has been one of the great salivations on planet Earth. It's what's necessary in the Middle East. Others have written about it,… — Michael Savage
There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a… — Kathe Kollwitz
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… — Issey Miyake
The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of… — Issey Miyake
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure — Fanny Burney
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast — Thomas A. Edison
We are whirling through endless space, with and inconceivable speed, all around everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be… — Nikola Tesla
Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some… — Sparky Anderson
I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity — Clifford Geertz
The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will… — Byron Dorgan
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral… — Ross Macdonald
On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong.… — Confucius
You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying… — Marshall Sylver

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