Quotes About Motion

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage...

The soul has many motions, body one.

At worse, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.

If ... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal.... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

Then the ship gave sudden lurches that made it a matter of uncertainty whether one was going to put his fork in his mouth or into his eye.

What are you then? You are a pattern of energy flowing in the stream of time.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

Film is a machine: you never stop.

Is that thing actually going round? I can't tell

Gravity. Stronger at some times than others.

poetry is motion graceful as a fawn gentle as a teardrop strong like the eye finding peace in a crowded room

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe.

Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Nothing is static.

As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

My feet walked me down the aisle of the Greyhound bus, all the way to the back. My butt sat me in a seat. My butt's accomplished a lot since then. My butt's a movie star.

Though not much of a swimmer herself, Hux knew the four basic strokes. Freestyle was the speed stroke, breast was for en durance, the backstroke was a quirk of the body's buoyancy in motion, and the butterfly was the power stroke.

I look like him, only he has a calm gaze, and my eyes look around me. I am a man of motion, not of immobility. And this is the centre of the problem. Denied motion, the strain begins. The static personality is a prison:

in the slow motion that is the speed of humiliation.

Makine burnundan soluyor, homurdan?yor, çal??maya devam ediyordu. Tek yapt?klar? pistonlar? hareket ettiren yak?t? deÄŸiÅŸtirmekti.

They bobbed back and forth, little Halloween apples.

slightest touch or movement brought on nausea

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.