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Quotes About Motion

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
~ Albert Einstein
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the motion.
~ Tom Cruise
My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.
~ Joan Baez
Activity does not necessarily mean life.
~ Philip K. Dick
Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".
~ King Louie
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.
~ Brenda Ueland
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
~ Frances E. Willard
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
~ Rick Warren
We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.
~ Jim Carrey
Everything began with a single breath. A light wind that started a sway, and the sway started a turn, and the turn... The turn started everything.
~ Jim McCann
Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
~ Jim Samuels
We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.
~ Jimmy Fallon
A vida não parava nunca, para a gente poder viver direito, concertado?
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
~ Joan D. Vinge
There was a delicious freedom about the swift steady motion of the drag and even in the warm dusty air blowing up in their faces that set the passengers chirping and chattering like budgerigars.
~ Joan Lindsay
It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything — staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.
~ Joan Rivers
molecules dancing between them, and
~ Ann Napolitano
The Big Dipper wheels on its bowl. In years hence it will have stopped looking like a saucepan and will resemble a sugar scoop as the earth continues to wobble and the dipper's seven stars speed in different directions.
~ Ann Zwinger
Rhythm is a fundamental fact of life, the key, indeed, to the universe.
~ Anna Pavlova
He was seduction in motion
~ Anne Bishop
Why does motion sadden him?
~ Anne Carson
Like two particles in a complex sentence we sit side by side moving forward, eyes on the road. Parataxis is a charged instant of language cold on the surface, unexplained underneath.
~ Anne Carson
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
~ Anne Carson
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
~ Anne Carson