Quotes About Motion

motioned me over.

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.

Falling and flying are near identical sensations, in all but one final detail.

looks out at a wave breaking like a white pencil being drawn across a blue piece of paper.

This is Tío's genius—he knows that a man who would never have the weakness to set a great evil into motion doesn't have the strength to stop it once it's moving. That the hardest thing in the world isn't to refrain from committing an evil, it's to stand up and stop one.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

Life is a balance between rest and movement.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

You know what I like about driving? The forward motion of it, the propulsion of it, like you might go anywhere.

This is my secret--that any moment I might fly away. Everyone on earth but me--and now Violet--moves in slow motion, like they're filled with mud. We are faster than all of them.

But it feels like everything all around me is shifting in ways I didn't expect, when all I want is for things to stand still.

Life equals structure plus activity.