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Quotes About Motion

I always liked speed.
~ Guy Lafleur
I spend most of my life feeling like I've been shot out of a cannon.
~ Molly Ivins
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.
~ Matt Smith
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.
~ Roger Penrose
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
~ Christopher Buckley
For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.
~ Michio Kaku
To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
~ John Carpenter
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
~ James Cook
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
~ Samuel Johnson
God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.
~ Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
~ Gregory Bateson
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
~ John Webster
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
~ Elbert Hubbard
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
~ Immanuel Kant
A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
~ John Burroughs
In a sword-fighting drill, where one participant is going to mount an attack and the other is to respond in some way, the attacker is known as the agent and the respondent is known as the patient. The agent acts. The patient is passive.
~ Neal Stephenson
The string goes taught and the tray slides into the tunnel and disappears.
~ Neal Stephenson
Emotion is energy in motion. When you move energy, you create effect. If you move enough energy, you create matter. Matter is energy conglomerated. Moved around. Shoved together. If you manipulate energy long enough in a certain way, you get matter. Every Master understands this law. It is the alchemy of the universe. It is the secret of all life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Tis not the nodding of the head that rows the boat.' As
~ Neil Boyd
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to do.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
if we don't act , we're just standing still. and the act of standing still is the same as moving backwards when everyone else is in motion all around us, around the world
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson