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“We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.”

Feels Ends Natural Sentences Teeth Prose Tape Pulling Fluid Pouring Right Words

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”

Source: Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.”

Universe Periods Evidence Physics Gravity Fluid Thermodynamics

Author:Ben Stein

“It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.”

Way Energy Views Information Empty Crucial Vessel Fluid Mislead Empty Vessels

Author:Anatol Rapoport

“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...”

Men Age Turns Modern Fashion Shapes Sight Shining Surface Lust Arise Selfishness Iron Gray Rays Ashes Rainbow Torn Fragments Fluid Blast Phoenix Modern Man Runes

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.”

Writing Humans Mother Sin Virtue Originals Enterprise Historian Malice Fluid Original Sin Staples Narrators

Book:Schindler's List

Source: Schindler's List

“In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.”

Men Social Process Dog Species Significance Organisms Fluid Intercourse Absorbing Canine

Book:An Olaf Stapledon Reader

Source: An Olaf Stapledon Reader

“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.”

People Want Kind Art Three Lines Levels Awareness Painting Ambition Understood Praise Critics Burning Confused Significance Plastic Fluid Modernism Painting A Picture

Author:Arnold Friberg

“If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.”

Ifs Should Life Is Moral Principles Sake Over You Fluid Moral Principles Obstinacy Jeopardize

Author:Epifanio de los Santos

“I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.”

Feels Wake Up Gender Fluid

Author:Ruby Rose

“The Tao asks you to clearly see the parallels between you and this naturally flowing substance that allows life to sustain itself. Live as water lives, since you are water. Become as contented as the fluid that animates and supports you. Let your thoughts and behaviors move smoothly in accordance with the nature of all things.”

Moving Asks Water Support Behavior All Things Substance Tao Parallels Fluid Support You

Book:Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)

“Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.”

Knows Feels Soul Hands Fire Sadness Emotional Connected Unbelievable Fluid Hendrix

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.”

States Wisdom Moving Politics United United States Economy Car Lows Liberalism Quantity Steel Inflation Fluid

Author:John Chamberlain

“I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.”

Knows Enough Jobs Sound Comfortable Eating Folks Ridiculous Fluid

Author:Duane G. Carey

“This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.”

Feels Firsts Wells Has Beens Space Couple Hitting Shifting Fluid Groove Great Experiences

Author:Laurel Clark

“I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.”

Kind Art Done Whole Bigs Fun Bits Art Is Aspect Whole Life Kicks Martial Arts Fluid Flip Thai Taekwondo Muay Thai

Author:Caity Lotz

“Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.”

I Can Ideas Hands Together Used Artist Steps Wonderful Movement Absolutes Extraordinary All Time Awe Mastery Precise Fluid Every Step True Artists

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.”

Different Self Balance Breaths Strikes Evolve Fluid

Book:How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

Source: How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

“If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.”

Ifs History Fluid

Book:Points of Friction

Source: Points of Friction

“Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.”

May Soul Grows Sin Fire Divine Fruit Envy Subtle Bitterness Divine Love Acid Fluid Iniquity

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.”

Feels Different Hard Sound My Own Roots Rhythm Fluid Anglo Saxon Different Music Spanish And English

Author:Joan Larkin

“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Always. ... The confidence that it will change is what makes bearing it possible. So pain is fluid. It is only when you conceive of it as something static that it is unbearable.”

Important Pain Deals Unbearable Fluid Static

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.”

Pieces Paper Casts Prose Bless Concrete Manipulate Fluid Liquid Old Days God Bless Processing Typing Processors

Author:Sue Grafton

“When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.”

People Wealth Money Position Gold Collecting Fluid Bankruptcy Constipation

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.”

Mind Use Reality Speak Loses Fields Concepts Dare Circles Ignorant Mediums Etc Criticize Pilots Quantum Probability Credibility Fluid

Author:Maurice Allais

“If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.”

Ifs God Divine Fluid God Image

Author:Judith Plaskow

“In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.”

Mind Heart Soul My Heart Flow My Soul Fighter Sparks Fluid Lighters

Author:Eminem

“My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.”

Writing Long Done Helping Novel Long Time Tests Intention Mess Related Help Me Editing Organize Fluid Rewriting Refining

Author:Dennis Cooper

“Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.”

Firsts Masters Golf Evolve Fluid

Author:Tiger Woods

“No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.”

Matter Done Games Hours Who You Are Plenty Evolve Fluid Hours In The Day

Author:Tiger Woods

“The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.”

Ocean Mysterious Gentle Hawaii Fluid Nourishment Solace Pacific Guarded Aloof Pacific Ocean Hedonistic

Book:Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress

Source: Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress

“I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.”

Sometimes Use Bigs Taken One Thing Upset Print Fluid Sticky Of Context

Author:Daphne Guinness

“A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.”

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely”

Ifs Goes On One Day Just One Fluid

Book:Just One Day

Source: Just One Day

“I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.”

Guy Three Morning Months Six Get Up Sheets Six Months Fluid

Author:Corey Taylor

“Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.”

Joy Motivation Destroying Novelty Fluid Dissolving

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.”

Fluid

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.”

Should Ideas School Subjects Discipline Fluid Curriculum Fertile School System School Curriculum Interdisciplinary

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.”

Years Wells Book Real Character School Novel Adventure Exciting Delight Storytelling Attractive Rainbow Engaging Graphic Fluid Artwork Old School Claire Graphic Novels Orchids

Author:Bryan Talbot

“Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.”

Winning Force Bits Storytelling Awards Rope Fluid Predecessors Visceral Hypnotic Award Winning

Author:Dave Gibbons

“London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.”

Humans Home London Hills Bowls Fluid County Rims

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.”

Thinking Two Stories Next Process Novel Couple Planning Software Short Story Fluid Screenplays Processors

Author:Michael Marshall Smith

“The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.”

Littles Whole Moving Left Sides Steps Changed Legs Uniforms Championship Drank Fluid Nudge Nba Championships Nba Finals Halftime

Author:LeBron James

“It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.”

Trying Beautiful Speech Patterns British Comparison Fluid Barbarians

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.”

Needs Kind Body Suffering Powerful Greater Drunk Remedy Thirst Fluid Diabetes Discharge

Author:Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done”

Done Running Singing Eternity Seeds Mortality Fluid Altered Bud

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

“The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.”

Men Book Seems Imagination White Rooms Creativity Creation Adventure Needed Safe Mood Enormous Heat Complexity Prose Reckless Fluid Fuse Seething

Author:John Dos Passos

“True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.”

Thinking Heart Long Body Running Force Blood Health Rounds Affection Entertainment Wheels Lungs Fluid Cheerfulness Wheel Of Life

Author:Laurence Sterne

“We made love. How pedestrian the words look-trite, worn, practically featureless with use-but how can one better describe that which happens when it happens? That creation? That magic blending? I might say we became figures in a mesmerized dance before the rocking talisman of the moon, starting slow, so slow... a pair of feathers drifting through clear liquid substance of sky... gradually accelerating, faster and faster and finally into photon existence of pure light... as my whole straining body burst like fluid electricity into hers.”

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