Motion Quotes
1040 quotes by 798 authors
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Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece…
— Nick Flynn
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Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform.…
— Roger Corman
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God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power.... The more we exercise,…
— Ellen G. White
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Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found…
— Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.
— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
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The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The…
— Edward Bernays
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A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
— Richard E. Byrd
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There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring…
— Ray Harryhausen
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Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
— James Altucher
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The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.
— Bradley Sands
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The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does.…
— Joseph Bruchac
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Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.
— Paul Theroux
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There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if…
— Rumi
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Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To show us where she stood there rests alone Tiber; and…
— Joachim du Bellay
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I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
— George Eastman
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You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let…
— Bobby Womack
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A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either…
— Ginette Paris
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As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of…
— Helena
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Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of…
— Brian Ellis
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I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why…
— Ian Shoales
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