He isjoyful with swift movement when a mouse sticks in his sharp paw. I too am joyful when I understand a dearly loved difficult problem.

-Anonymous
c.820  'Me and Pangur Ba¤  n', by an unidentified cat-owning scholar, translated in Gerard Murphy Early Irish Lyrics (1956), no.1.

   We expect the ticking movement of the human timepiece to be revealed.

-Aslet, CliveWilliam
  In Country Life,10 Nov, reviewing  Jonathan Dimbleby The Prince of  Wales:  A Biography (1994).

You that love England, who have an ear for her music, The slow movement of clouds in benediction, Clear arias of light thrilling over her uplands, Over the chords of summer sustained peacefully.

-Day-Lewis, Cecil
  The Magnetic Mountain, pt.4, no.32.

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.2.

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Speech, Berlin, 9  Apr.

Never confuse movement with action.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
Quoted in  A E Hotchner Papa Hemingway (1966), pt.1, ch.1.

We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.

-Marinetti, Emilio FilippoTomasso
  Manifesto of Futurism. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy:  A Modern History (1959), p.270.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

-Pascal, Blaise
c.1654^1662  Pense¤  es, no.129 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

Thankstohis bodily formand thankstohismind, [man] is a universal machine, capable of an infinite diversity of movement.

-Redtenbacher, Ferdinand
  Resultate fur den Maschinenbau (published1848).

   A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.

-William of Poitiers   11c.
c.1071 Of theBattle of Hastings,14 Oct1066. Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum (edited by R Foreville,1952).