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Quotes About Motion

Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered the distance...
~ Seamus Heaney
If we pretend that the emission of gravitational waves were the only thing affecting the Earth's orbit, it would take over 1023 years for it to crash into the sun. So perhaps the same thing is true for atoms: maybe electron orbits aren't really stable, but they're stable enough.
~ Sean Carroll
Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.
~ Margaret Atwood
All thought is energy. All things are in motion. All time is now.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I've noticed that Henry needs an incredible amount of physical activity all the time in order to be happy. It's like hanging out with a greyhound.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
~ Bill Watterson
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
~ C. S. Lewis
Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the mere breathing of a cat will blur the fur in a time exposure.
~ Carl Van Vechten
While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
~ Carson McCullers
I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I brought my left arm forward I hit myself in the ear.
~ Casey Stengel
The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.
~ Cassandra Clare
You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.
~ Ron Atkinson
Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion.
~ Sharon Stone
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.
~ Karl Marx
In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.
~ Louis Kronenberger
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Then he tossed me his lighter and padded away, the dim light quickly transforming him into a shadow, then a sound, and finally a silence.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
A crackling sound prompted her to think that the fire had already begun. It hadn't the noise was kinetic humans, flowing, charging up.
~ Markus Zusak
The sun stirs the earth. Around and around, it stirs us, like stew.
~ Markus Zusak
It was November 3 and the floor of the train held onto his feet
~ Markus Zusak
The sun stirs the earth. Round and round, it stirs us, like stew.
~ Markus Zusak
El tiempo se dirige ahora hacia algo. Se derrama hacia atrás sin que nada lo pueda evitar, como los reflejos en el parabrisas de un automóvil que corre por la ciudad o el bosque.
~ Martin Amis