Motion Quotes
1040 quotes by 798 authors
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All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.
— Jennifer Rardin
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The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
— John Hanning Speke
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A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and…
— John Burroughs
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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a…
— Augusto Boal
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For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.
— Michael Medved
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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding…
— David Allen
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The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around
— Taiichi Ohno
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A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
— Samuel Fuller
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Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.
— Robert McKee
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I feel that classical music should be a more recognizable part of everyone’s entertainment. It has been my hope that through live concerts, motion pictures,…
— Jose Iturbi
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber…
— John Austin Baker
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
— Utada Hikaru
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I might have been able to make it as a pitcher except for one thing: I had a rather awkward motion and every time I…
— Casey Stengel
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We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood…
— John Mayow
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When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great…
— Peggy Fleming
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Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
— Desi Arnaz
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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