Quotes About Motion

The first great fact which emerges from our civilization is that today everything has become "means." There is no longer an "end"; we do not know whither we are going. We have forgotten our collective ends, and we possess great means: we set huge machines in motion in order to arrive nowhere. JACQUE SELLUL

The heart that disdains all motion occasionally is convulsed by a jolt.

For Newton and the scientists of his time, God had set up the universe and set it in motion. Newton's laws simply governed the running of the universe. That is how Newton saw the workings of God and the workings of God's universe.

I think a movie released is better than a movie stuck.

The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

Theater is a wonderful medium - I love theater myself, and there are exceptions to every rule - but the thing that motion pictures can do that theater cannot is that in movies, you don't have to rely on dialogue.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

If I could, I would never walk. I would just jog or, even better, run.

Inactivity is death.

Correva, sempre più veloce, più sciolto, col cuore che bussava ma dall'esterno verso l'interno come se smaniasse di riconquistare la sua sede. Correva come non aveva mai corso, come nessuno aveva mai corso, e le creste delle colline dirimpetto, annerite e sbavate dal diluvio, balenavano come vivo acciaio ai suoi occhi sgranati e semiciechi. Correva, e gli spari e gli urli scemavano, annegavano in un immenso, invalicabile stagno tra lui e i nemici.

Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.

it was difficult to stay upright. Once rolling, the oxen were as

oradan gitmem gerekiyormu? gibi bir duyguya kap?ld?m, yürüdüm.

Strong style is a philosophy for Japanese wrestling fans that was created by New Japan Pro Wrestling founder Antonio Inoki. He wanted you to show every motion and show real technique in the ring. It's important to use real techniques from real life and real martial arts. The detail is important.

I grip very close to the butt of the racket. This allows me to get a lot of wrist action to create more spin and whip.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

The next day was, for Emma, a dismal one. Everything seemed enveloped in a black atmosphere that hovered indistinctly over the exterior of things, and sorrow rushed into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in abandoned manor houses. It was the sort of reverie you sink into over something that will never return again, the lassitude that overcomes you with each thing that is finished, the pain you suffer when any habitual motion is stopped, when a prolonged vibration abruptly ceases.

Inertia. Guy's law of enchantment: "People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of existence; you stir up waves that break upon the shores of eternity itself. And it is of much importance whether they are waves of brightness that are radiated, bearing light and fragrance far and wide, or whether they are waves of gloom, carrying misery and misfortune to loosen pent-up glaciers that will create an Ice Age of the national heart.

Something is making this happen, she'd thought. The whole world is alive and moving and I was meant to be here doing exactly this.

Hester didn't understand the technological minutiae of how Wilde knew when he had visitors. She just knew it had something to do with motion detectors and sensors and night cameras.