Quotes of: Social-movements Keyword

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem d...

Jerry Saltz

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

1984

There’s no such thing as probability," she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

The Human Script

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

Sorcerer's Apprentice

He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.

The Scriptlings

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

The Savage Detectives

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

Love is a Dog from Hell

I make love like a mannequin mimicking a statue, only with less movement and more grunting.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half." ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Jude Law

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

Peter L. Berger

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.

Phil Lesh

All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

P. J. O'Rourke

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Pol Pot

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, and two circular oscillations perpendicular to this direction rotating in opposite directions.

Pieter Zeeman

In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority.

Robert Dallek

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

Rupert Everett