Quotes About Motion

leaned back in the rocker and set it in motion gently, still smiling at him. "She

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don

Il silenzio era il sottofondo delle cose e la bicicletta misurava la velocità della vita.

Movement isn't progress.

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.

Outside the seasons passed: sun, snow, spring green, October storms . . . was this a vision of my future? When would the shunning hero come, to set the clock if my life in motion again? Would he come some morning, or in the night? In April or December? This year? Next year? I shuddered. No, I wouldn't just sit and wait. I wanted to go out.  Maybe there were new men out there, better men, men who'd just been waiting for me. Somewhere someone is always waiting for someone.

Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes...

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word 'dissipate' -- to dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something. In the little hours of the night every move from place to place was an enormous human jump, an increase of paying for the privilege of slower and slower motion.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move.

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

Life lobs us into the air like a stone, and we fly along, saying as we go: "You see, I'm moving.

Whirls and whirlpools in the fluid futility of life!

satisfied with dreams only when I'm not dreaming, satisfied with the world only when I'm dreaming far away from it. A swinging pendulum that goes back and forth, forever moving to arrive nowhere, eternally tethered to the twin fatality of a centre and a useless motion …

The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in accord with whom we are or think we are …

satisfied with dreams only when I'm not dreaming, satisfied with the world only when I'm dreaming far away from it. A swinging pendulum, back and forth, forever moving to arrive nowhere, eternally captive to the twin fatality of a centre and a useless motion.

A swinging pendulum, back and forth, forever moving to arrive nowhere, eternally captive to the twin fatality of a centre and a useless motion.

We achieve nothing. Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, 'Look at me move.

Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical figures too numerous to mention collectively, never standing still or resting but spinning away and darting hither and thither and back again, all the time on the go. These diminutive gentlemen are called atoms. Do you follow me intelligently?

Parker had never before felt the least motion of wonder in himself. Until he saw the man at the fair, it did not enter his head that there was anything out of the ordinary about the fact that he existed. Even then it did not enter his head, but a peculiar unease settled in him. It was as if a blind boy had been turned so gently in a different direction that he did not know his destination had been changed.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.