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Quotes About Motion

We always try to go back to character: What do they want? What are they doing? What's in motion that they're dealing with? When things get particularly heavy, we will take a step back and look at who has some room to have some things lighter, funnier, or sweeter happen.
~ Peter Paige
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
~ Richard Blackmore
Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.
~ Karlie Kloss
Space adaptation syndrome is certainly real.
~ Jared Isaacman
Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.
~ Isaac Newton
Sometimes the action in our descriptions is present but hidden, and a slight rewording is all it takes to bring the motion into view. For instance, "Her hair was black and curly " can become "Her black hair curled in ringlets around her cheeks.
~ Rebecca McClanahan
Widdershins means right to left, moon-wise, opposite the Sun's motion, so: • Right-hand backward-C-shape, the Moon is waxing, growing larger. • Left-hand C-shape, the Moon is waning, shrinking in size.
~ Renna Shesso
Little fingers, little Moon (think of that tiny "fingernail clipping" shape). • Thumb joints, Full Moon—either almost, exactly, or just past. • Widdershins means right to left, moon-wise, opposite the Sun's motion, so: • Right-hand backward-C-shape, the Moon is waxing, growing larger. • Left-hand C-shape, the Moon is waning, shrinking in size.
~ Renna Shesso
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion." Rumi
~ Rhonda Byrne
Every action always has an opposite and equal reaction.
~ Rhonda Byrne
The prospect of a change is a green spot in the desert, and the probability of great events and exciting scenes creates a feeling of delight, and sets life in motion, so as to give a pleasure which any one not in the same state would be unable to explain.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
To the human eye, stars move very slowly. Considering their relative motion, at this moment she and I might be looking up at virtually the same sight. She in 1896, me in 1971.
~ Richard Matheson
Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.
~ Richard Powers
Written music is like nothing in the world—an index of time. The idea is so bizarre, it's almost miraculous: fixed instructions on how to recreate the simultaneous. How to be a flow, both motion and instant, both stream and cross section.
~ Richard Powers
Las cosas pueden viajar a cualquier sitio; para ello, no hay más que permanecer inmóvil.
~ Richard Powers
He's never really thought about the many miles a tree travels, in smallest cursive increments, each hour of every day. Forever in motion, these stationary things.
~ Richard Powers
In further experiments with permanent magnets and coils, he obtained a consistent result: only when the magnet was moved briskly in relation to the coil did the galvanometer's needle move.
~ Richard Rhodes
The internal combustion engine evolved from the steam engine. Both use hot gases expanding within an enclosed cylinder to supply power. The gas in a steam engine is steam, generated externally by heating water in a boiler and introduced through a valve into the cylinder, where it expands and pushes on a piston connected to a rod that transfers the motion outside the engine to turn a pair of wheels.
~ Richard Rhodes
Fixing feels like motion, but is not always progress.
~ Richard Young
The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.
~ Rick Riordan
That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.
~ Kay Ryan
Car engines were
~ Kazuo Ishiguro