Moving Quotes

• The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Stupid

• I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Moving

• I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.

  

  Camila Mendes
  • Different
  • Childhood
  • Identity

• It's hard for an educated woman to turn her head off. That's part of the joy of being a submissive. None of the decisions are yours. When you can't refuse anything and can't even move, those voices in your head go silent. All you can do, and all you are permitted to do, is feel.

  

  Cherise Sinclair
  • Joy
  • Decision
  • Silent

• This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.

  

  George M. Church
  • Understanding
  • Whole
  • Permit

• Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Age
  • Moving

• Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Circumstances

• Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Broken

• Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Different
  • Style
  • Perspective

• Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Moving
  • Probably
  • Putting

• You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • Want
  • Moving
  • Steps

• I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Director

• It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Past
  • Battle

• My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • People
  • Past
  • Moving

• The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

  

  Mike Weir
  • Sometimes
  • Looks
  • Able

• A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Home
  • Moving

• Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Energy
  • Mean
  • Dance

• There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Sentences

• I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Taken

• Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  

  Rollo May
  • Moving
  • Despair
  • Capacity

• States are great engines moving slowly.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Moving
  • States
  • Engines

• It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Care
  • Feels

• You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.

  

  Susan Vreeland
  • Eye
  • Goal
  • Philosophy

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