Moved Quotes - Page 37

• The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

  Carole Maso

  Art, Voice, Rivers

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• I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

  Gregory Galloway

  Hate, Fall, Taken

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• When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Discovery, Trying, Research

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• I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Years, Childhood, Arlington

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• Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

  Questlove

  People, Baptism, Records

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• I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

  David Rudisha

  School, Winning, Moved On

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• You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Hate, Responsibility, Men

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• I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

  Nia Vardalos

  Jobs, Acting

  "TriBeCa Interview: My Life In Ruins with Nia Vardalos". Interview with Matthew-Lee Erlbach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.

  David Farland

  Book, Genre Is, Your Favorite

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• The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Zealous, Too Much

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• I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

  John Howe

  Switzerland, Film, Animated

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• Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way.

  Lukas Foss

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.

  Pam Houston

  Pain, Moving, Eye

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• There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

  Pam Houston

  Sky, Bigs, Prairie

  Pam Houston (1993). “Cowboys are My Weakness: Stories”

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• When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

  Jeff Ament

  Sex, Taken, Kids

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• I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

  Billy Bragg

  Party, Used, Stills

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• The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Generosity, Creative, Way

  Screenwriters' Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.

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• When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.

  Zach Braff

  Gay, Guy, Firsts

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• I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.

  Mookie Wilson

  Jobs, Decision, Roles

  Mookie Wilson, Erik Sherman (2014). “Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets”, p.134, Penguin

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Hands, Effort

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1820). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Adventurer and Rasselas”, p.186

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• I am not very moved by historical apologies.

  Tom Paulin

  Apology, Historical

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• At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Boys, Age

  Autobiography by Paul Nurse, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

  Hermann Hesse

  Strength, Strong, Demand

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