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“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

Knows Sometimes Character Moving Young Waiting Water Wife Fronts Instance Farms Yards Moving Away

Author:Ron Rash

“Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.”

Moving Water Known Size Lifts Hops Swimming Spy Athletic Slides Whales Slap Seaweed Flukes

Author:Tim Cahill

“I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.”

Believe Sometimes Moving Dies Water Keep Moving Sharks Sometimes In Life Just Believe

Author:Michelle Ryan

“Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.”

Feelings Moving Water Born My Own Forever Mines Fine Please Shapes Stones Ease Native Tenderness Shells Sensibility Toss Oysters

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.”

Writing Together Moving Stars Water Morning Air All Things Wings Sand Mice Forsake Lizards Oar Grasshoppers

Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings

“On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.”

People Ifs I Can Moving Water Singing Swimming Pool Swimming Pool

Author:Michael Bolton

“When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.”

Way Feels Moving Water Ordinary Strive Extraordinary Chaos Deeper Surface Stillness Shifting

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.”

Humans Light Eye Moving Force Water Environment Pieces Air Movement Wind Currents Invisible Breathing Visible Animated Rough Times Choreography Forces Of Nature Human Eyes

Author:Janet Echelman

“I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.”

Needs Littles Bigs Moving Water Air Feet Wave Surfing Spray Kites

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.”

“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.”

Ifs Long Enough Bigs Moving Left Stars Water Memories Grief Behinds Huge Long Time Shining Endure Calm Wave Moving Forward Boat Keep Moving Behind You Swamps

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.”

Moving Spirit Water Blood Flow Warm Generous Streams Fountain Particles Vigor

Book:The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed

Source: The Art of Preserving Health: a Poem. Price Four Shillings Sewed

“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

World Moving Three Water Fire Imagine Air Depends Elements West Stable Fourth

Book:Eight and a half women

Source: Eight and a half women

“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)

“In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.”

Art Able Moving Speak Stars Water Walks Angel Forgotten

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.”

Stills Moving Black Water White Sun Roots Wave Woods Holes Brown Sand Twisted Transparent Back Again Bluffs

Book:The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

“Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.”

Moving Water Travel Prison Clay

Author:Saib Tabrizi

“My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.”

Shows Wanted Moving Left Water Fire Doors Son Summer Red Kitchen My Son Seconds Engines Show Me Summer Days Spilling

Book:Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

Source: Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems

“Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there.”

“I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.”

Source: Hard Times (And Other Stories)

“Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”

Source: Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell