Quotes About Motion

At that moment, the images in the giant sphere seemed to freeze in place as all motion suddenly ceased. The charging dragon stood transfixed with a plume of flame suspended in front of his nostrils. The knight hung motionless in mid-stride, both feet off the ground, sword raised but unmoving. Time stood still. The crowd waited in breathless anticipation.

Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

bruscas sacudidas del tren abofetean a los viajeros hasta dejarlos sumidos en un estado de abyecta sumisión

The ever-whirling wheelOf Change; the which all mortal things doth sway.

All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.

Newton had been the first to learn how to pin down the mysterious infinitesimals that held the key to explaining motion.

Change just is the realization of some potentiality; or as Aquinas puts it, "motion is the actuality of a being in potency

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul.

Slide, Kelly, Slide

If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.

As it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Os barcos ancorados remexiam com moleza as ancas.

Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.

Boats motor back and forth, unzipping the water.

Foucault's pendulum would

Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion.

tapping Zeno's

Rainwater purls from cloud to roof to eave.

The wheeling of the night on its silent trunnions.

The waves continue on their anonymous journeys.

there is no such thing as perpetuall Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life it selfe is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare." God had something better in store for the righteous in heaven, but here below it was all buffeting and collision, both outside our heads and in them.

Being called a dance photographer makes me bristle. You might say that dance is my landscape. The root of my interest is movement or, rather, how movement can be interpreted photographically, and dance provides a perfect opportunity for this.

I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.