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Quotes About Motion

Nothing gets my blood pumping like a little Animotion.
~ John Cena
Walking in stop-motion animation is probably the most difficult thing you can do... The way that they have these puppets connect to the set is they actually drill a hole in the set, and they put a threaded rod up through that hole and screw it into the bottom of their foot, and that keeps them in place.
~ Duke Johnson
What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action.
~ Kaya Scodelario
I love to drive and run the floor.
~ Larry Johnson
I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.
~ Abraham Zapruder
For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.
~ Dick Strawbridge
Dynamism is a function of change.
~ Hillary Clinton
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
~ Suzi Quatro
Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation—the curtains whipped away—she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote.
~ Frank Herbert
But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.
~ Frank Herbert
How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica
~ Frank Herbert
That girl! She was like a touch of destiny. He felt caught up in a wave, in tune with a motion that lifted all his spirits.
~ Frank Herbert
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion. —Gowachin aphorism
~ Frank Herbert
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past.
~ Franz Kafka
If you're under suspicion it's better to be moving than still, as if you're still you can be in the pan of the scales without knowing it and be weighed along with your sins.
~ Franz Kafka
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
~ John Muir
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
~ Vitruvius
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.
~ Antoine Predock
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
Thus far we run before the wind.
~ Arthur Murphy
I won't go deep sea fishing. The first time I experienced it, I went salmon fishing. My problem is, before I even get to the fish, I have vomited. You have to go out five miles, and you are just throwing a line in and bringing them to the surface. And then you have to go back five miles, and all of a sudden the wind comes up, and it gets choppy.
~ Henry Winkler
A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.
~ George C. Wolfe
The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.
~ Julie Klausner