Quotes About Motion

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

Life NEVER slows down.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.

I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...

Jonathan nodded and joined him in watching the lane stripes on the Beltway zoom past. They

beach is sad and suddenly the wave on the dog came lightning And the dog lightning bold fast

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

Reality is fluid. Nothing is fixed. Everything is part of a pattern that is in constant motion; even a rock is a dance of energy. The universe is dynamic and alive and we are in it and of it, dynamic and alive ourselves.

We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion. I call this the brain's performance envelope.

Futurist sculpture creates ideal new forms by using motion to break down the barrier between an object and its surroundings. To join the object's exterior plastic infinity to its interior plastic infinity.

Of the things that bind the universe together, gravity is not particularly strong a force, as it happens. It just…never stops reaching. That always sort of made me feel good about gravity. It's always looking for the next rock, always something down a breaker in space-time, whipping something in a long, arcing curve around something else. Gravity doesn't give up. It keeps on trucking.

I made a grab for the fabric of the universe and hauld myself into a stable orientation.

Nothing in space is ever really standing still, so all visitors and accelerations are, not to put too fine a point on it, relative.