“This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.”

— 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture:

“[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]”

— 1963, Highway Research Record:

“Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.”

— 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132: