Moved Quotes

• I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Mean
  • Beast

• Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

  

  William Congreve
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Magic

• I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.

  

  Alexandra Shipp
  • Famous
  • Become
  • Moved

• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • City
  • Play
  • New York

• As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Shelter
  • Old Man
  • Reptile

• I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Audience
  • Active
  • Confronted

• My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • Parent
  • Grades
  • Florida

• I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art
  • Style

• I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.

  

  John Travolta
  • Time
  • Firsts
  • Bike

• We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Move
  • Moved

• I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Writing
  • Texas
  • Reactions

• That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • Organization
  • Scale
  • Zero

• For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Moved
  • Creature

• Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Musical

• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Why
  • Brother
  • Passionate

• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  

  Sarah Zettel
  • Wonder
  • Doors
  • Indigenous

• I was having sex with everything that moved

  

  Danny Robert Worsnop Asking Alexandria
  • Sex
  • Moved

• I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Action
  • Cities
  • Clear

• Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

  

  John Calvin
  • Reputation
  • Fault
  • Wrongs

• Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

  

  William Shatner
  • Remember
  • Overrated
  • Icons

• I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• The IWW Industrial Workers of the World has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Women
  • Workers
  • Pushing

• I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Different
  • Teacher
  • Auditions

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