A Quotes
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“A mouse relies not solely on one hole.”
“A mouse slid out from under his hat and scrambled down his sleeve, across his lap, and down to the floor. Nothing,' said Fenworth, 'should distract from a wizard's dignity.”
“A mouse who fails to get the cheese tries again without kicking herself for being an idiot.”
Source: Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
“A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.”
“A mouse would solve this handily, / except I like to probe unknowns / and be amazed by what I find / along the corners of your mind. / Wherever you will let me start, / l love to learn your ways by heart.
(from Amazed)”
Source: The Humbling and Other Poems
“A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.”
“A mousy, middle-aged man with a clean robe and a stony half smile stood among them. He held parchment and an inkwell with two hands and somehow made them look heavy.”
Source: The Conjurer
“A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?”
Source: Faithless: Tales of Transgression
“A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
I hail the superhuman;
I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.”
“A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“A move of the Spirit of God is coming to the Catholic Church. The youth in particular will be ignited with a fresh fire of zeal and passion for Christ and His Gospel. A radical company of Believers will arise in the Catholic Church during this move, and they will release a flow of God's love and truth into the nations.”
“A movement caught his attention. A flash of white, a dash of color, dusty red against the gray-green of the leaves. Dragon lizards skittered into hiding behind the rocks as he stepped out of the trees into the clearing.
A girl, hair dangling down her back in disarray, homespun skirt hitched up underneath a heavy leather apron, her brown feet bare, crouched beside a pool, hand outstretched to a pure white animal with large powerful hind legs and a long muscular tail.
He'd read about these strange quadrupeds in the baron's notes. Kangaroos, the New Hollanders called them, and they were plentiful, reds and browns and grays, but white? And the girl like some Valkyrie. Hair the color of warm chestnut settling around her sculptured face.”
Source: The Woman in the Green Dress
“A movement election is a different type of election. It's an election where the people start moving into a direction because they think the country is failing or going down the tubes or the establishment has failed them.”
“A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.”
“A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.”
“A movement has to move. Constantly.”
“A movement in Hotel Valhalla’s garden caught my eye. I looked closer. And immediately wished I hadn’t.
Legs spraddled and wearing nothing but a pair of leather short-shorts, Thor was bending, twisting, and squat-farting. Strapped to his ankle was a device shaped like a valknut, a design of three interlocking triangles.
“What in the name of me is my son doing?” I asked in bewilderment.
“Who, Thor?” Heimdall looked over his shoulder. “He’s warming up for a jog through the Nine Worlds.”
“A jog. Through the Nine Worlds,” I repeated.
“Yep. If he logs ten million steps on his FitnessKnut—that thing around his ankle—he earns a cameo appearance on a Midgard television show. That’s why I had his goats. He said they’d slow him down.”
“That’s ridiculous!”
“Not really. Those goats aren’t exactly speedy. Unless they’re plummeting, that is.”
“Not what I meant. . . . Never mind.” I cupped my hands around my mouth. “Thor! Thor!”
Heimdall tapped his ears. “He’s listening to rock.”
“Rock ’n’ roll?”
“No, just rock. Boulders, gravel, stones.”
“A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
“A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'”
“A movement only exists when people are inspired to move,
to do something, to make the cause their own.”
“A movement’s call for action evokes an eager response in the frustrated, for they see in action a cure for all that ails them. It brings self-forgetting and gives them a sense of purpose and worth. Indeed it seems that frustration stems chiefly from an inability to act, and that the most poignantly frustrated are those whose talents and temperament equip them ideally for a life of action but are condemned by circumstances to rust away in idleness.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.”
“A movement that recognizes our biological similarity but denies the diversity of our priorities cannot be a women's health movement, it can only be some women's health movement.”
Source: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
“A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little”
“A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.”
Source: The analysis of sensations
“A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.”
Source: Man and Superman
“A movement with some lasting organization is a lot less dramatic than a movement with a lot of demonstrations and a lot of marching and so forth. The more dramatic organization does catch attention quicker. Over the long haul, however, it's a lot more difficult to keep together because you're not building solid...A lasting organization is one in which people will continue to build, develop and move when you are not there.”
“A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.”
“A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.”
“A movie about the past is not the same as the past.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage”
“A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.”
“A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.”
“A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are watching a movie. You are transported for three hours to a world where you see real people. In a novel it is private - there's only you, and words on pages. The landscape is in your mind and in your feelings.”
“A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.”
“A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.”
“A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.”
“A movie hero is because of a movie; a national hero is because of a nation; and a universal hero is because of humanity.”
“A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'”
“A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.”
“A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.”
“A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.”
“A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.”
“A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.”
“A movie is about human beings, about humanity.”
“A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.”
“A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.”
“A movie is kind of like being the captain of a ship, which is nice, but when I perform by myself it's just surfing on the water and nobody really knows what happens.”
“A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.”
“A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.”