Motion Quotes

1040 quotes by 798 authors

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space. — George Harrison
The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing. — Enya
It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me. — Thomas Dolby
I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. — Gene Kelly
Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture… — Gene Kelly
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of… — Pieter Zeeman
There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of… — Gene Lees
Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward. — Leonardo da Vinci
God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the… — Xenophanes
Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail. — Colson Whitehead
Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week,… — Ken Evoy
Peak performance is meditation in motion. — Greg Louganis
In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our… — Siri Hustvedt
I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes… — Andrew Dost
You know the slow-motion walking shot in 'Reservoir Dogs?' That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is… — Tom Folsom
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. — Richard Donner
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor. — Richard Donner
Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion. — William Shakespeare

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