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Quotes About Motion

Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.
~ David W. Earle
Chance favors those in motion.
~ Dr. James H. Austin
Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on its own.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
~ Nathanael West
Life, for a human being, is a constant process of thought, of motion, of purpose, of achievement; it is not the state of merely not being dead.
~ Nathaniel Branden
They stopped on the bridge to look into the swift eddying flow of the yellow Tiber, a mud puddle in strenuous motion;
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur
~ Neal Shusterman
There are no miracles here, just momentum.
~ Neal Shusterman
What you see on the freeway is just what there is, a funeral procession of the dead, the greatest horror of our time in motion. I'll see you there tomorrow!
~ Charles Bukowski
If it wasn't for seasickness, all the world would be sailors!
~ Charles Darwin
The universe is a brightly colored blur of fast-moving shapes augmented by deafening noises.
~ Charles Stross
Those who set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Momentum is everything in this league.
~ Malcolm Brogdon
Momentum is very important.
~ Sarfaraz Ahmed
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
~ Andrew Wyeth
The world is in motion, as it seems.
~ Utada Hikaru
I would love to do some motion capture work just to be able to challenge myself.
~ Will Poulter
There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.
~ Gerald Vizenor
The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
~ John Hanning Speke
So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.
~ Dennis Muren
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
~ Justin Zackham
I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.
~ Mark Waters
When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.
~ John Lasseter