Quotes About Motion

Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity. Little things—a cricket on a stem, the veined branches on a leaf—are magnified, brought from the background in achingly clear focus.

They flew, hissing, through the surgical cold of the air, the scythed snow spinning like glass from the runners.

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

I felt like I was walking on an airport's rubber conveyor belt.

The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over.

There is no such thing as a really calm sea. Always, always, there is motion.

Now there has been a rearrangement of the kaleidoscope.

And the Minister strode rapidly away.

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

Once people have got a moty car, blessed if they can stay still anywheres

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.

Try and hang on," said Dad. "Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—" Bertie was sick.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Physics has the cutest words.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.