Quotes About Gravity

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

Îmi dau seama c? o etap? din ea s-a încheiat definitiv: perioada f?r? griji È™i necazuri a anilor de È™coal? nu se mai întoarce niciodat?. Nici m?car n-o regret, am dep??it stadiul ?sta, nu pot s? fac doar tâmpenii, o p?rticic? din mine îÈ™i p?streaz? mereu gravitatea.

Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

What a paradox: that we connect with God, with divinity, in our flesh and blood and time and space. We connect with God in our humanity. A great truth, attributed to Emily Dickinson, is that "hope inspires the good to reveal itself." This is almost all I ever need to remember. Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

A singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

She swam to the shallow end of the pool and stood up, yanking the shrinking top of the bathing suit up to a more demure level. That's a shame, Peter Jensen's cool voice emerged from the shadows. I was hoping gravity would win.

But the weight of her anguish over Gregory – this one missing airman, this unreliable, perhaps unworthy man – filled her whole upper half, diaphragm, lungs, ribs, shoulders, with such crushing gravity that the sighs with which she was obliged to displace it shook her entire body.

As the helicopter fell, its dead rotors started to spin, and Ruvola used that energy to slow the aircraft down. Like downshifting a car on a hill, a hovering auto-rotation is a way of dissipating the force of gravity by feeding it back through the engine. By the time the helicopter hit the water it had slowed to a manageable speed, and all the torque had been bled out of the rotors;

When a response is detected, the thing that uttered moves separately but implacably toward its responder, as by gravity. So equivalence is drawn to equivalence until they are within touching distance.

It might if you were male, hanging upside down naked and got nervous, then whizzed all over yourself. Gravity is not your friend at that point. (Josie) Eww. Save those tidbits for when you're in the men's room…updating your contact information. (Terri)

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

the silent tutting infuriated him as symptomatic of a generation. The assumed air of gravity and the fraudulent pretence of judgement in situations that required only answer or action struck him as the manner in which old men concealed their hollowness.

She has the sort of body you go to see in marble. She has golden hair. Quickly, deftly, she reaches with both hands behind her back and unclasps her top. Setting it on her lap, she swivels ninety degrees to face the towboat square. Shoulders back, cheeks high, she holds her pose without retreat. In her ample presentation there is defiance of gravity. There is no angle of repose. She is a siren and these are her songs.

The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot. That kind of force and that kind of distance are more than enough to break hard rock. Wells will flow faster during lunar high tides.

Of the things that bind the universe together, gravity is not particularly strong a force, as it happens. It just…never stops reaching. That always sort of made me feel good about gravity. It's always looking for the next rock, always something down a breaker in space-time, whipping something in a long, arcing curve around something else. Gravity doesn't give up. It keeps on trucking.

Like her sister ships, the Montreal has a fatal attraction to gravity wells.

The whole thing-pirate and perch-revolved in a lopsided orbit after I hit her, the center of gravity somewhere around her thighs.

One of the things I'd noticed was that, in addition to all my weird new secondary senses relating to gravity and mass and so forth, my eyes were becoming better adopted to seeing under a variety of light conditions.

Fortunately, in partial gravity, one-handed push-ups aren't as hard as they are planet-side.