Fluid Quotes

• I see music as fluid architecture.

  Joni Mitchell

  Architecture

  "POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  Damien Hirst

  Goal, Way, Life Is

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• If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

  Pythagoras

  Adversity, Light, Darkness

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

  Laurel Clark

  Heart, Significant Change, Body

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• Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

  Rider Strong

  People, Covering, Bodily Functions

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

  Bruce Jenner

  Sports, Reading, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

  Marcel Proust

  Sea, Opinion, Appearance

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.1903, Delphi Classics

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• For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

  Thom Mayne

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• The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. ... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

  Ronald Ross

  What If, Mosquitoes, Growing

  Sir Ronald Ross (1988). “The Great Malaria Problem and Its Solution”

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• The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

  Loretta Devine

  Thinking, People, Hiv

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  Adam Savage

  Gasoline, Mixtures, Fierce

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Light, Supposing That

  Isaac Newton (2007). “Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

  John McCain

  Ambition, Presidential, Disease

  "Not Bad At All". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, texags.com. April 26, 2002.

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• This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Men, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.

  Nicolas Steno

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid,

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• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  W. C. Fields

  Baby, Food, Health

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