Quotes About Motion

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

Depending on how high I heaped the stones, each wheelbarrow weighed between 175 and 250 pounds. Once I managed to set it in motion, it was loath to stop without banging me up in some fashion, especially during the thrilling plunge down the backyard hill, when I switched roles from cart pusher to dragging victim.

If you shake the Universe hard enough, change will fall out of its pockets.

Matt rested his head against the bus window, the vibration working like a strange massage.

I move, therefore I am.

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.

A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.

Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

Movement is tranquility.

It's very tough to transfer ballroom technique onto the ice, to give the illusion of the proper hip motion and position, with the speed and glide of the blade.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

We've managed to motion-track the silkworm's movement as it is building its cocoon. Our aim was to translate the motion-capture data into a 3D printer connected to a robotic arm in order to study the biological structure in larger scales.

The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.

it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.

Ships are only hulls, high walls are nothing,When no life moves in the empty passageways.

The sound of the click, then the sound of Victoria's scream, then the sound of Victoria falling sideways to the floor.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

For if eternity and time are rightly distinguished by this, that time does not exist without some movement and transition, while in eternity there is no change, who does not see that there could have been no time had not some creature been made, which by some motion could give birth to change.