Quotes About Motion

Woyzeck, I shudder when I think that the earth takes a whole day to rotate. What a waste of time! And where's it going to end? Woyzeck, the very sight of a millwheel depresses me.

I rolled over and faced the cracked green wall. I regretted that simple action immediately; it had felt like a slow-motion film with every other frame missing.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

We now can replace the smooth slope corresponding to the continuous motion of the object with a kind of staircase representing a jerky motion in which the velocity abruptly changes by small increments and remains constant for a short time until the next jerk takes place.

During each short time interval the motion is assumed to proceed with a constant velocity corresponding to that time, and the distance covered is equal to this velocity multiplied by the time interval.

But since the velocity is equal to the height of the thin rectangle, and the time interval to its base, this product is equal to the area of the rectangle.

Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.

All sources of energy in our Universe run down. We can't help that. Everything is downhill in just one direction, and we can force a temporary uphill, backward, only by taking advantage of some greater downhill in the vicinity. If we want useful energy forever, we need a road that is downhill both ways. That is a paradox in our Universe; it stands to reason that whatever is downhill one way is uphill going back.

Zero kelvin is the lowest possible temperature. At absolute zero, all motion comes to a standstill. It is obvious that a lower temperature is not feasible because there is no velocity smaller than zero and no energy content less than nothing.

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

The mind of the most logical thinker goes so easily from one point to another that it is not hard to mistake motion for progress.

Something must happen!

It is no rest to be idle.

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.