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Quotes About Motion

Norm looked out over the court. The workers involved in the [model] shoot darted about like trapped particles under sudden heat.
~ Harlan Coben
When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.
~ Evelyn Ashford
I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.
~ Margaret Cho
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
~ Isaac Newton
It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
No lens is quick enough to track the movement of the human body. The molecules are always moving.
~ Roger Rees
Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.
~ Heinrich Heine
The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.
~ Kim Hyesoon
Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
~ Paul Theroux
A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving
~ Jim Morrison
Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.
~ Jonathan Raban
Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.
~ Charles M. Schulz
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
~ Neal Bascomb
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
~ Spike Milligan
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
~ Edgar Degas
Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.
~ Ogden Nash
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
~ Asger Jorn
The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.
~ Silvia Hartmann
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
~ Sir Isaac Newton