Quotes About Gravity

men pushing themselves as hard as they could push themselves, not exercising, but training, and perhaps not even training, but fighting, fighting the gravity the world exerts on all those who walk up on it, exerts seemingly equally, though in actuality not equally, not equally at all.

Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.

I live surrounded by men, and for a long time I've known that most of them are immune to logic. The only thing they learn about, and not all of them do, is the law of gravity. Until they fall flat on their faces, they don't wake up.

Not even the Superintendent could play about with gravity.

Whoever can't lough doesn't deserve to be taken seriously

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.

I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.

In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.

Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In the looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But we are conditioned to forget. So thet the war may have importance, yes, but stil... isn't the hidden machinery easier to see in the days leading up to the event. There are arrangements, things to be expedited... and often the edges are apt to lift, briefly, and we see things we were not meant to...

They were invading Gravity itself, and a beachhead had to be laid down.

I watched, baffled, as Will Speckman floated like an angel, drifting down to the marina dock a hundred yards away. My mind suggested all kinds of crazy answers. The Trinity can fly. Will Speckman is actually a bird. Gravity has taken the night off.

They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?". Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

Magnolia danced like a planet would dance, rotating and orbiting, confident in her own gravity.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.

Quiero tocar cada parte de él. Es como si su cuerpo fuese un sol gigante, emitiendo su propia fuerza de gravedad.

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Laws ... would be useless on the moon.

The elevator was of the new sort that ran by gravitic repulsion. Gaal entered and others flowed in behind him. The operator closed a contact. For a moment, Gaal felt suspended in space as gravity switched to zero, and then he had weight again in small measure as the elevator accelerated upward. Deceleration followed and his feet left the floor. He squawked against his will. The operator called out, Tuck your feet under the railing. Can't you read the sign?

The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.

When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon as the engines cut off and you get to zero gravity, you felt as if you were being pushed off your seat. You feel disoriented. You don't feel aligned with anything. I felt for a few good hours that I was falling.