Quotes About Stationary

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary.

I want a house that's mobile but stationary, situated in a safe place without borders, where the people are peace-loving.

as an explosion. Imagine a stick of dynamite standing in a stationary position on a table. Nothing is moving, so the total momentum of

Galileo stated that there was no experiment you could possibly perform which could detect if you were stationary or moving at a constant velocity. This unification of "being stationary" and "moving" stands as the first of the great unifications in physics.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

How strange it is that the sky, which by day is a stationary ground on which the clouds are seen to move, by night becomes the backdrop for Earth's own motion, so that we feel her rolling beneath us as a sailor feels the running of the tide.

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who took their seats, waited and then dismounted.

Aristotle thought the earth was stationary and that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars moved in circular orbits about the earth.

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

inert and seemingly lifeless.

Hence the awkward expression 'negative entropy' can be replaced by a better one: entropy, taken with the negative sign, is itself a measure of order. Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness ( = fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

Needless to say, taken literally, this is just as absurd. For an adult organism the energy content is as stationary as the material content. Since, surely, any calorie is worth as much as any other calorie, one cannot see how a mere exchange could help.

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.

I always do that, pick a spot the first day and never move. What does that say about me? Boring and predictable.

I'm not a big traveller.

Many a man thinks he has given proof of wisdom when he says, "There is nothing new under the sun." There is nothing more false. Modern science shows that nothing is stationary, that in society, just as in external nature, a continuous development is discoverable.