Motion Quotes

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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch,… — Susan Orlean
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for… — Camille Paglia
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. — Blaise Pascal
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. — Jackson Pollock
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at… — Ginger Rogers
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. — Salman Rushdie
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of… — Marquis de Sade
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy… — Jerry Saltz
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done… — Adam Savage
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. — William Shakespeare
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation… — Herbert Spencer
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It… — Steven Spielberg
In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the… — Steven Spielberg
I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk. — Willie Stargell
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. — Gloria Steinem
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death… — Laurence Sterne

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