Moved Quotes - Page 22

• If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

  Judd Hirsch

  Play, Want, Reason

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

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• I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.

  Amy Poehler

  Eye, Feel Better, Jumping

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Numbers

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• This show does something very special for the gay community. There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch. It's all about loving and accepting yourself, and every season I'm surprisingly moved by it.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Fun, Gay, Community

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• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Time, Ocean, Mean

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Hopefully when he moved his things out of the apartment, he at least took his CDs. I mean, we might be gay, but… Enya? Really?

  Julie James

  Mean, Gay, Cds

  Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.65, Penguin

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• Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Water, Earth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.138, Macmillan

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• The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mean, Purpose, Knowledge Of God

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• We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Fate

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• Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Men, Mind

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 398

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• Say stop, whenever you want to stop. Understand?" I nodded. "Do you want to stop now?" My head moved back and forth to the pillow. "Thank God.

  Tammara Webber

  Thank God, Want, Back And Forth

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• She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

  J. K. Rowling

  Moving, Body, Way

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• Magnus reached out to touch Alec, but Alec moved away. Magnus' hand fall to himself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Hands

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• She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic bones. She tapped them with her Knuckles. [. . .] I can hear my bones, she thought. Her fingers moved up from her pelvic bones to her waist. The elastic of her underpants barely touched the center of her abdomen. The bridge is almost finished, she thought. The elastic hung loosely around each thigh. More progress. She put her knees together and raised them in the air. No matter how tightly she pressed them together, her thighs did not touch.

  Steven Levenkron

  Air, Bridges, Progress

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• She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fate, Joy

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.611, Hamilton Books

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• He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

  George Orwell

  Action

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

  Jean Genet

  Song, Mouths, Body

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• Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

  Jim Butcher

  Color, Pale Skin, Skins

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• Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Men, Phones

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• and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

  Madeline Miller

  Lakes, Oil, Smooth

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• Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Water, Grace, Splashing

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.566, Simon and Schuster

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• Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  New York, Party, Men

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• John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

  David Wong

  Air, Hands, Cartoon

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.526, Titan Books

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• Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

  Ovid

  Death, New Beginnings, Men

  Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.359, Oxford University Press

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• Enemy giants moved towards the breech, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior’s club. He yelled something to his fellow blacksmiths – probably ‘FOR POSEIDON!’ – but with his mouth full of peanut butter it sounded like, ‘PUH PTEH BUN.’ His brethren all grabbed hammers and chisels, yelled, ‘PEANUT BUTTER!’ and charged behind Tyson into battle.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Enemy, Battle

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