Quotes About Motion

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.

Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

The cinema is death at work.

I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It's kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics.

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go!

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything's just quiet.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

I saw a stationery store move.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.

Motion is beauty and beauty is motionsless.

Flexibility" can be passive, whereas "mobility" requires that you can demonstrate strength throughout the entire range of motion, including the end ranges.

Whereas he believed life, any life, was a curious adventure, and if you merely kept your wits about you and stayed alert and in motion, you could find your way to a satisfactory conclusion.

All things are like that eddy, dependent on a very precise set of circumstances to exist—persisting for a time, occasionally for a very long time. But it's all in motion.

We are all eddies in a great stream of perpetual change. The universal engine never slows, never fails. It is the Evertide.