Quotes About Motion

Physical science, more or less unconsciously, has drifted into the view that all natural phenomena ought to be reduced to motions. Light and heat and sound are all due to wave-motions, which travel from the body emitting them to the person who sees light or feels heat or hears sound.

The wind in the wires is like the tearing of soft silk under the blended drone of engine and propeller.

Everything waits and moves. Our hearts, beating. The stars, wheeling over the spruce trees.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

I can't read in a car, because I'll get sick. It's almost instant.

This is the thing: I get motion sickness.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

life's intensity, like a sine wave, closes in on a limit without ever reaching it.

Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

he'd set a perilous chain of events in motion:

Just think. We're whizzing through the universe.

History treats time as a chain of happenings that we humans set into motion by our own free will; its first lesson is that a first cause does not exist because, as my teachers put it back in public-school, we learn history in order to learn how to change it.

helicopter blades purled the air

She figured out that the only way to keep from being frozen was to stay in motion, and long ago converted most of her flesh into liquid. Now when she smells danger, she spills herself all over, like gasoline, and lights it.

It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.

His hands began to tingle. His feet, too. It was taking everything he had just to stand still. He wanted to move, he wanted to do something. He wanted to set his life in motion, reach out and capture his dreams.

Either move or be moved.

galloping gut-rot.

A me piace veder correre pieno di fuoco ciò che era stato quieto per anni e anni.

Didn't they say sharks had to keep moving or they'd drown?

He aquí proyectada en ralenti, para ver mejor, la vertiginosa sucesión de los hechos, que filmaron desde la corte celestial:

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories—and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.