Quotes About Momentum

It's hard to steer a parked car.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

But the rubber bubble was about to burst.

He had to keep moving. It didn't matter in which direction.

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favor another small win.

This can't be normal death, he said to himself. This is unnatural; the regular momentum of dissolution has been replaced by another factor imposed upon it, a pressure arbitrary and forced.

A rolling stone gathers no moss

Play the moment, play whatever plays for you in that moment, and then go to the next moment. It doesn't matter where you're going. Don't worry about that. Just take it moment, moment, moment, moment.

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.

I must dive back into the festivities. I must swim within the conversations, swim from gift to gift, wish to wish. Some people swim to get somewhere. Others swim to stay in shape, or to get faster. Right now, I'm going to swim so I won't drown.

as soon as anything even remotely one percent promising starts to happen, you really jump on it with great enthusiasm and build on it quickly.

Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;

Pace excites, and dialogue is pace. Falling into good dialogue on page one can put us in your pocket.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

radiate up from the earth. But as the train went on, the

Why is a worm so effective? Because it is always moving.

Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present.

When you have seven to eight players performing game after game, you are on an absolute roll.