Gravity Quotes
509 quotes by 394 authors
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Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people…
— Hugh Laurie
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She felt as if she had been running, and had created a hill and was racing down the other side, and there was no stopping…
— Cassandra Clare
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The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take…
— Douglas Adams
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The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.
— Saul Bellow
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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.
— David Levithan
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In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.
— Michio Kaku
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
— Richard Dawkins
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If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another…
— Steve Martin
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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…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
— Donna Tartt
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I would love a sandwich,' said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and…
— Mira Grant
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I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity…
— Walter Mosley
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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and…
— Elaine May
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow…
— H.G. Wells
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Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with…
— Rainbow Rowell
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It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe…
— Rainbow Rowell
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They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried…
— Tim O'Brien
Who Wrote These Gravity Quotes
394 authors contributed a total of 509 Gravity Quotes, led by these top contributors: