Quotes About Motion

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

I get seasick quite badly.

advancing through my schedule without volition, feeling more and more like the graphical lozenge on a media player's progress bar.

In the elevator it seemed to Enid that the ship was suffering not only from a seesaw motion but also from a yaw, as if its bow were the face of someone experiencing repugnance.

We were in a middle space then, in a cone of white, father and son moving forward at a certain speed. Side by side, not truly quiet but quiescent, two gnarls of human scribble, human cipher, human dream.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

felt great numbers of people on my left side relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon my right, and to ease myself with making water; which I very plentifully did, to the great astonishment of the people; who, conjecturing by my motion what I was going to do, immediately opened to the right and left on that side, to avoid the torrent, which fell with such noise and violence from

Plain and simply, a love lyric is one's soul set in motion. If it's good, it may do the same to you.

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

Flux heightens is into knots of staid tension.

I allow myself eddies of meaning: yield to a direction of significance running like a stream through the geography of my work: you can find in my sayings swerves of action like the inlet's cutting edge: there are dunes of motion, organizations of grass, white sandy paths or remembrance in the overall wandering of mirroring mind: but Overall is beyond me — A.R. Ammons, from "Corsons Inlet," Collected Poems: 1951-1971 (W. W. Norton & Co., 1972)

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

Life is transition: The only things that are truly static are already dead.

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

You don't want to be passive through motion and then try to produce force. That's very scary. That's where you can injure yourself a lot of times.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.

I like to penetrate and play fast basketball.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.