Motion Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Motion

Motion Quotes & Sayings

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Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. — Henry Adams

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A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? — Andrea Gibson

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. — Sun Tzu

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ... — J. Michael Straczynski

Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself. — Gabrielle Roth

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth

Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion. — Glenn Haybittle

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. — Samuel Johnson

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death. — Debasish Mridha

Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie". — King Louie

This was perhaps what you feared: to become inert in a body that still breathes, drinks, and feeds itself. To commit suicide in slow motion. — Edouard Leve

Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest. — Richard Powers

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion! — Lorii Myers

Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord. — John Paul Warren

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that. — Norm MacDonald

I'm ensuring my place in heaven. — Andrew Motion

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. — Lord Byron

A gut feeling is a mover and shaker. It charges up the mind and puts the body in motion. A gut feeling is this: it's alive. — C.C. Wyatt

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. — Norma Shearer

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure. — Karl Marx

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers. — Dexter Palmer

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press. — William Randolph Hearst

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward. — James Altucher

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. — Oscar Micheaux

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary. — Andrew Motion

Sex is an emotion in motion. — Mae West

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. — Andrew Motion

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion. — Bruce Wilkinson

The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making — Marya Mannes

Eye's follow energy more than motion. — Bradley Henderson

Motion is tranquility. — Stirling Moss

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence. — Gerald Vizenor

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows. — John Lawson

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space. — George Harrison

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture. — Samuel Fuller

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do. — Kurt Russell

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion. — Candas Jane Dorsey

Liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion — Thomas Hobbes

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion. — Gonjasufi

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place. — Austin O'Malley

Pono always say slow-motion vulgar. — Kiana Davenport

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk. — Willie Stargell

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing. — Richard Paul Evans

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment ... when one thing changes into something else. — Andre Kertesz

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now. — J. Valor

One single equation for the motion of the Moon covers some 250 large-size pages and represents the major effort of a lifetime — Fred L. Whipple

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. — J.J. Abrams

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme. — Andrew Motion

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs. — William Shakespeare

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it. — Dexter Palmer

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep. — Dexter Palmer

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion. — John Hanning Speke

All around us, Karachi kept moving — Kamila Shamsie

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion. — David Simon

A motion to adjourn is always in order. — Robert A. Heinlein

He moved like a jungle cat, all purposeful, calculated motion - wrapped up in fluid grace. — Brigid Kemmerer

We are love in slow motion. We move as one, leaving the darkness behind, where it belongs, and become the light. — J.A. Huss

It was funny how the monumental shit in your life tends to happen in slow-motion and at warp speed at the same time. — N.R. Walker

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera

Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion. — William Strunk Jr.

It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion. — Swami Vivekananda

As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace. — Joyce Carol Oates

An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently — David Antin

Your motive influences your motion. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be. — Dexter Palmer

If she ran, at least her body still had motion, even if her brain was mired under responsibility. — Lish McBride

... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. — Rebecca Solnit

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. — Thomas Jefferson

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed — Frederick Buechner

That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky. — Kathy Hepinstall

The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm. — Laird Koenig

Sex is emotion in motion. — Mae West

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within. — George Will

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. — Gene Kelly

The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion. — Wayde Goodall

Set your desires in motion by connecting to the heart conscious. — Steven Redhead

If you are in 'motion' than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are 'emotional' than you are in an agitated state. — Dada Bhagwan

I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW — Melody Beattie

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena — William Shakespeare

Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful. — Maria V. Snyder

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. — Richard E. Byrd

Prayer is what starts a heart in motion — Phil Mitchell

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. — Toni Cade Bambara

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels. — Andrew Motion

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion ... — Alessandro Volta

Writing is thinking in slow motion. — Walter Kaufmann

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. — Andrew Motion

I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it. — George Eastman

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion. — William Least Heat-Moon

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. — Conrad Hilton

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover. — Aristotle.

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion. — Garth Risk Hallberg

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once. — Dexter Palmer

We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle. — Santosh Kalwar

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm. — Kim Edwards

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements. — Rebecca MacKinnon

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. — George Meredith

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day. — Beth Comstock