Fluid Quotes

• I see music as fluid architecture.

  Joni Mitchell

  Architecture

  "POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Inspiration, Practice

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• Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

  Jane Lynch

  Inspirational, Graduation, Life Changing

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Degrees, Fixture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

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• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  Damien Hirst

  Goal, Way, Life Is

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• If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

  Pythagoras

  Adversity, Light, Darkness

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  Adam Savage

  Gasoline, Mixtures, Fierce

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• Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

  Rider Strong

  People, Covering, Bodily Functions

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

  W. C. Fields

  Baby, Food, Health

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• Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

  John McCain

  Ambition, Presidential, Disease

  "Not Bad At All". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, texags.com. April 26, 2002.

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• Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Light, Supposing That

  Isaac Newton (2007). “Opticks: Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Science, Men, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.

  Julia Cameron

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• I wanted to portray a newly democratized, enclosed society. I wanted to show how extraordinarily fluid people are in their embrace of other human beings.

  James Ellroy

  People, Embrace, Wanted

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is less important than the right to be free to live it out, without discrimination, harassment, injury, pathologization or criminalization - and with full institutional and community support. That is most important in my view.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Views, Support

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Passion, Intelligent

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.244, Shambhala Publications

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• For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

  Thom Mayne

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• I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

  Jerry Brown

  Justice, Needs, World

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• Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Relationship, Creativity, Journey

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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