My favourite poem is called ‘Roots and Wings’ – it’s a very moving poem about how if you’ve got real roots you can fly. – David Miliband
I can’t do with mountains at close quarters – they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. – D. H. Lawrence
I’m really pleased to share the ‘Station to Station’ film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it’s made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it’s a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it’s this amazing modern kaleidoscope. – Doug Aitken
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I’d won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane – that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away. – Frank McCourt
I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving. – Phil McGraw
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. – Deepak Chopra
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot
I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it’s like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond. – Debby Ryan
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. – Ella Maillart
You’ve got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body’s doing. It’s about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving. – Michael Cudlitz
When I played with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in Vegas, the guys used to go, ‘Dick, cut it out, man! You’re moving around too much on this stage. You’re making us look bad!’ – Dick Dale
Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don’t you think you should be pitching more with questions? – Daniel H. Pink
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. – Peggy Noonan
I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around – it doesn’t matter whether I am dancing on a Friday night or on my bike getting from A to B. – Erin O’Connor
It’s so important to keep moving and don’t buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel like as long as you don’t hurt yourself or hurt anyone else. And things don’t stop working in your body or your mind. – Florence Henderson
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. – Philip K. Dick
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. – Elbert Hubbard
By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve. – Charles Francis Richter
Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young. – Magnus Scheving
Ever since I’ve left, I’ve been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I’m not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I’m moving and grooving. – Eriq La Salle
I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it. – Patti Davis
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It’s kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It’s amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair. – Pamela Anderson
There’s no such thing as a writer’s block. If you’re having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity. – Natalie Goldberg
Any time I’m in a moving thing, like an airplane, I’m usually asleep before we even get on our way. – Garth Brooks
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta’ be creative, you gotta’ let your talent take over. – Freddy Adu
An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts – everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace. – Nimrat Kaur
