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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • Parent
  • Grades
  • Florida

• 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

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

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Moved
  • Creature

• I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'

  

  Drew Carey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• 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

• If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Ifs

• I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Move
  • Embrace
  • Knew

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Football

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

  

  William Shatner
  • Remember
  • Overrated
  • Icons

• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Music
  • Men
  • Sweet

• I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!

  

  Betty Lynn
  • House
  • Moved
  • Los Angeles

• 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

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