Quotes About Motion

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

It matters less where you go than that you keep moving.

The road was possibility, the kind she'd thought her life would never hold again, and Tess herself was motion. Motion had no past, only future. Any direction you walked was forward, and that was as must be.

And behind me the highway, circling the city like a concrete snake, waits for us.

Annie watched them all walk together, like sleepwalkers, she thought, jackrabbits trying to outrun them. The two ends of the line pulled in to form a semicircle, a giant net of humanity. *

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

momentum lost by any collision or impact is equal to the opposite momentum gained.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

Chill? I can't chill. I find it so difficult to sit still.

Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something, and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.

Or perhaps walking should be called movement, not travel, for one can walk in circles or travel around the world immobilized in a seat, and a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. It is the movement as well as the sights going by that seems to make things happen in the mind, and this is what makes walking ambiguous and endlessly fertile: it is both means and end, travel and destination.

The body is nothing more than a parcel in transit, a chess piece dropped on another square, it does not move but is moved.

Buadhann an thoighde ar an gcinneamhain.

pero la velocidad era poder, y la velocidad era gozo y la velocidad era era pura belleza

It was a hot day and the Ferris wheel was turning in the air like a thermometer bent in a circle and given the grace of music.

It would be convenient if one could redesign the past, change a few things here and there, like certain acts of outrageous stupidity, but if one could do that, the past would always be in motion. It would never settle down finally to days of solid marble.

Or maybe that was just the swiftly gathering sense of motion that had me now, the drug-like grip of a decision taken and what it meant.