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Gliding Quotes: Moving With Ease

Smooth on the surface

Gliding quotes often use motion as metaphor, comparing a calm exterior to a Character who appears untouched by pressure even while working hard underneath.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

People
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Nov 07, 2020

In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again.

Quotes by Stephen Root

Disconnected
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Nov 07, 2020

In my home city of Vancouver, most people put out their recycling boxes. The organic grocery and cafe on Fourth Avenue is flourishing. Bikes are popular, and there are a few gas-electric hybrid cars gliding around. But as this new century begins, my twentysomething generation is becoming increasingly disconnected from the natural world.

Quotes by Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

Quotes by Salman Khan

Character
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Nov 07, 2020

What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.

Quotes by Robert Wade

Crushing
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Nov 07, 2020

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

Quotes by Orville Wright

Habit
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Nov 07, 2020

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Others root the idea in everyday City life, like bike commuters gliding past traffic in an eco-conscious neighborhood.

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