Fluid Quotes - Page 7

• The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

  Catherine Ingram

  Teacher, Laughing, People

  Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.165, Penguin

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• Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike oak-trees to the centre, round which all arrange themselves the best they can. But the old statesman knows that society is fluid; there are no such roots and centres; but any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement, and compel the system to gyrate round it, as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus, or Cromwell, does for a time, and every man of truth, like Plato, or Paul, does forever.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Plato, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.161, Graphic Arts Books

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• Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
  On floating bodies I, prop 5.

  Archimedes

  Weight, Body, Floating

  Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “The American Scholar”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

  Bruce Lee

  Guy, Too Much, Students

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• There is an endorphin rush that comes when you puke. It's kind of like a runners wall. Once you cross that wall, once you cross that party wall and you puke, you do get a rush. There are good chemicals there. And also, you've made more room in your gut, in your stomach, in your gullet for more content, whether it be fluids or foods.

  Andrew W.K.

  Wall, Party, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do.

  Jimmy Smits

  Character, Fighting, Boxing

  Source: collider.com

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• Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.

  Jessica Lange

  New Experiences, Horror Stories, Play

  "Jessica Lange Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Her Psychological Work on the Show, Her Characters in Each Season and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 12, 2012.

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

  H. G. Wells

  Home, London, Hills

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12773, Delphi Classics

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

  Dave Gibbons

  Winning, Awards, Rope

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• 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.

  Bryan Talbot

  Real, Book, Character

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• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Ideas, Discipline

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.160, Penguin

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

  Charles Stross

  Motivation, Joy, Novelty

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.24, Penguin

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• Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

  Adrian Bejan

  Two, Design, Example

  Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor

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• It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Powerful, Heart, Argument

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• I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Hate, Grease, Causes

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• Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

  Brian Froud

  Garden, Lakes, Land

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• Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world.

  Brian Froud

  Song, Passion, Moon

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!

  Jean Genet

  Blood, Tears, Body

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hate, Self, Loathing

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)”, p.337, Yearling

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• I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub lining the railroad tracks had offered local companies enough cover to dump a stray contaner or two. Everything had been sealed up, but things were beginning to leak out. I had come to both pity and respect Len in the years since my mother left. He followed the physical to try to understand things that were impossible to comphrehend. In that, I could see, he was like me.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Thinking, Years

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• In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Pork, Defense

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• I'm always wondering if he'll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn't. And sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes. Absence isn't solid the way death is. It's fluid, like language. And it hurts so much...so, so much.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Hurt, Stars, Fall

  Jacqueline Woodson (2002). “Maizon at Blue Hill”, p.37, Penguin

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• What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

  Nick Hornby

  Regret, Hate, Glimpse

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