Moved Quotes - Page 6

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Paris, House, Fancy

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  Kate Winslet

  Sister, House, Parent

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• We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

  John Lasseter

  Love, Beautiful, Heart

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• As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

  Hugh Laurie

  Hate, Real, Drama

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• I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

  Geddy Lee

  Song, Texture, Structure

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• My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

  Bruno Mars

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

  James Wolcott

  Fun, Reflection, Class

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• I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

  Ricky Martin

  Girl, Successful, Years

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  Danica McKellar

  Couple, Years, Acting

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• No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Ideas, Half, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear

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• In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  "Millencamp Talks About Writing Musical With Stephen King" by Archive-Eric-Schumacher-Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. August 20, 2001.

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• I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care because I really feel that if I'm at my best, than I'm able to come to my job and really be feeling the best, so if I'm not working out or going on a hike, than I'm at home recharging and cooking dinner and hanging out with my cat.

  Lea Michele

  Jobs, Cat, Home

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• I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.

  Helen Mirren

  Flower, Adventure, Thinking

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• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Country, Travel, Kids

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• Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Kids, Night

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  Cory Monteith

  Teacher, Years, Class

  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Other Cultures, People

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• I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Soul, Energy

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

  Rafael Nadal

  Real, Giving, Moved On

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• As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  War, Princeton University, Eras

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• A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

  Joel Osteen

  Church

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• My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

  Carre Otis

  Father, School, Law

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  New York, California, Popular Song

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