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Quotes About Motion

I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
~ Jack Antonoff
As soon as we wrote the beat for 'Romeo,' I knew it was a running song. I was thinking about it in terms of the body. What do you want to do? It's not a song you want to dance to.
~ Caroline Polachek
They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.
~ Helen Mirren
When it comes to pace, we know that I don't have a problem.
~ Alexander Volkanovski
Movies would be like a broad painted canvas... or a mystical process which cannot really be explained, like, 'What is electricity?' Along with the images that go on the screen, there's a corridor of dialogue that can happen through motion pictures, whether you're aware of it or not.
~ Wayne Shorter
It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.
~ Kyle Korver
In the first instant of seeing, of knowing, Catell heard the terrible sounds of everything that breaks, bursts, and rips apart beyond repair, and the mad turning of all that moves, speeds, dashes about for a while, turning like a giant wheel, around, around. Then the wheel stopped.
~ Peter Rabe
Nature ever flows, never stands still.
~ Peter Rock
something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ...that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality," ...and thinks He moved the finger
~ Peter Watts
By the end of November, Halpin had had enough. He made a motion to have the case moved to another judge, citing all the delays Morrow had allowed in the case. Morrow granted Halpin's motion, and the case was moved to Supreme Court Judge Michael Tynan, who would preside over the case to its resolution.
~ Philip Carlo
Som i det gamla ordspråket: 'På en rullande stad växer ingen mossa ...
~ Philip Reeve
According to Democritus, the fundamental nature of the universe consists of indivisible atoms in constant motion and travelling in an infinite void. Material objects are temporary concatenations of these atoms, made and destroyed as atoms come together or disperse according to natural forces, whilst the atoms themselves are eternal and indestructible.
~ Philip Stokes
Distances" Swifts turn in the heights of the air; higher still turn the invisible stars. When day withdraws to the ends of the earth their fires shine on a dark expanse of sand. We live in a world of motion and distance. The heart flies from tree to bird, from bird to distant star, from star to love; and love grows in the quiet house, turning and working, servant of thought, a lamp held in one hand.
~ Philippe Jaccottet
If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that we do... so you have to imagine a fuzzier image. Second, fly eyes are faster than our own and are very sensitive to motion.
~ Michael Dickinson
I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.
~ Frank Peretti
Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists have run experiments in cats in a dark environment with a strobe so it can only see still images - and those cats' visual systems actually underdevelop. So motion is important, but what is the algorithm?
~ Andrew Ng
My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast.
~ Andrew Lau
Video is just exploding on Instagram - motion is the new filter. We're going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.
~ Marne Levine
Games are another place to find work, not only the voice stuff but in the motion capture stuff. It's exciting work.
~ Michael Cudlitz
When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.
~ Bill Dixon
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
~ Helena Blavatsky
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
~ Ferran Adria
I have two settings: full speed and stop.
~ Garrett McNamara