Quotes About Motion

A person "at rest" on the equator is actually spinning with the earth's rotation at 1,040 miles per hour and orbiting with the earth around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour.

The curving and rippling fabric of spacetime explained gravity, its equivalence to acceleration, and, Einstein asserted, the general relativity of all forms of motion.

Two events which, viewed from a system of coordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relative to that system.

Time is the "moving image of eternity."12

For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

All things are in motion and nothing is at rest. … You cannot go into the same [river] twice.

Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.

All those lateral G's. Vertical G's!

Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.

a human on a bicycle is the most efficient traveler among all machines and animals.

immobility is to the human body what rust is to the classic car.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own.

The pickup bumped heavily over the worn and stony footpath. The up-down motion made Cliff belch. He hit the break and came to a full stop in order to take a pull from the bottle. This was one time he couldn't drink while driving.

Time doesn't tick it doesn't tock — it flows relentless it is we who chop its water with our oars

Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.

My weekend plans — to move just enough so no one thinks I'm dead.

Never confuse movement with action.

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

"I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you."

We are an energy vortex

Life is very simple. It's just either dead meat or moving meat.

The defining difference between the spree killer and the mass murderer has to do with motion. Whereas the mass murderer slaughters in one place, the spree killer moves from site to site, killing as he goes. In that sense, spree killing might best be described as mobile mass murder.