Movable Quotes

#1. You find everything on earth at Harry's."
"Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness."
"I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness, as you know, is a movable feast.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

Paul Theroux

#3. Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

H.L. Mencken

#4. But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.

Clive Barker

#5. There are three kinds of people: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those who move.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#7. I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.

Thomas Steinbeck

#8. Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

#9. A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

Angela Carter

#10. Printing with movable letters probably began in China in the middle of the twelfth century, but

Jack Weatherford

#11. Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile
movable.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#13. The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

Philip Zimbardo

#14. There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen.

Benjamin Franklin

#15. The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold.

Chanakya

#16. He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.

Thomas Carlyle

#17. To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Dean Kamen

#18. Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.

Gene Fowler

#19. Memories were movable, he was discovering. They weren't etched in stone like some monolith testimony to the eons, as he'd once imagined.

R. Brady Frost

#20. What kind of bodies are movable and feasts. What color are visions.

Morgan Parker

#21. God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

Isaac Newton

#22. If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#23. I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them ... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Katherine Parkinson

#24. Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

Mike Barnicle

#25. Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

Angela Carter

#26. But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to the great importance of cattle in primitive times, but to the importance of the notion of sale or barter in generating the institution of property.

Edward Jenks

#27. All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Benjamin Franklin

#28. I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Taiye Selasi

#29. Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other ...

Jean-Christophe Valtat

#30. The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

Dan Barker

#31. I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

John Kapelos

#32. I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Liya Kebede

#33. I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

Ranveer Singh

#34. I pretended that lying frozen on the ground wasn't pure terror at work, that it was an actual plan versus being entirely too frightened to move.

Flora Dare

#35. It is impossible to conceive of idea apart from life. Every living thing has an idea of life, and every idea must have a living thing in which to arise.

Dee Hock

#36. I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Joe Wright

#37. The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

Paul Giamatti

#38. The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

Howard Fast

#39. I want more than that. I want you. I want to be able to kiss you anytime I want. I want to hold your hand in the halls. Hell, I want to be made fun of by the guys for wanting to be near you all the time.

Abbi Glines

#40. Saying those words made a sharp, quick panic rise up in her, an aching pain that had her throat closing. "You left me," she repeated. Maybe it was only out of blind terror at the abyss opening up again around her, but she whispered, "I have no one left. No one.

Sarah J. Maas

#41. All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all.

C.S. Friedman

#42. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Paul Kantner