Motricity Quotes & Sayings

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself ... I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day. — Ingrid Newkirk

We're involved with flower, fruit, grapevine.
They speak more than the language of the year.
Out of the darkness a blaze of colors appears,
and one perhaps that has the jealous shine
Of the dead, those who strengthen the earth.
What do we know of the part they assume?
It's long been their habit to marrow the loam
with their own free marrow through and through.
Now the one question: Is it done gladly?
The work of sullen slaves, does this fruit
thrust up, clenched, toward us, its masters?
Sleeping with roots, granting us only
out of their surplus this hybrid made of mute
strength and kisses - are they the masters? — Rainer Maria Rilke

God, she was one big nerve ending, that girl, and those big brown eyes got just a little wider when she was close. And those bruises. And how she begged for them.
I knew she was special the night I met her, I just didn't know how special. — C.D. Reiss

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty. — Ben Jonson

All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way. — Tim Kring

Agile is not just a methodology, but a set of principles and philosophy. — Pearl Zhu

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word
per piece or perhaps. — Robert Benchley

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. — Annie Dillard

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. — Ellsworth Kelly

Lets take full advantage of this discovery — William James

I'm really happy. Really! — Jennifer Aniston

The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use. — Eric Pianka

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

And it's thought by many neuroscientists such as Rodolfo Llinas of New York University that such goal-directed active movement, a biological property known as "motricity," is a requirement for the development of the nervous system. — Karen Shanor

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't. — Ruth Reichl

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers. — Mick Delaney