Quotes About Motion

Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.

I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

Iskaral Pust's warbling battle cry was somewhat strangled as he leaned forward, perched high in the stirrups, hands reaching like a raptor's talons, and the mule reluctantly stumped forward. Kruppe watched this agonizingly slow charge. He sighed. 'Really now. It comes to this? So be it.' And he kicked his war-mule into motion. The beasts closed, step by step. By step.

Light exploded behind Felisin's eyes as she sprawled sideways.

In a body with nothing to do, the mind will dance.

Love is a dog rolling on a dead fish.

A sudden wind thrashed the treetops in the garden, sweeping down from the east.

No matter how erratically something moves, the area accumulated under its speed curve up to time t always equals the total distance it has traveled up to that time.

indeed, Johannes Kepler fell into a state of self-described "sacred frenzy" when he found his laws of planetary motion—because those patterns seemed to be signs of God's handiwork.

Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching. Calculus draws its power by refusing to see that. It insists on a world without accidents, where one thing leads logically to another. Give me the initial conditions and the law of motion, and with calculus I can predict the future -- or better yet, reconstruct the past. I wish I could do that now.

Except for a human-powered hoist described

We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth's motion around the sun because the two forces balance each other, but this balance would be spoiled if one force was proportional to the mass of the objects on which it acts and the other was not; some objects might then fall off the earth into the sun and others could be thrown off the earth into interstellar space.

What is most striking is not so much that Parmenides and Zeno were wrong as that they did not bother to explain why, if motion is impossible, things appear to move. Indeed, none of the early Greeks from Thales to Plato, in either Miletus or Abdera or Elea or Athens, ever took it on themselves to explain in detail how their theories about ultimate reality accounted for the appearances of things.

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.