Motion Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Motion
Motion Quotes & Sayings
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Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
— Henry Adams
Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries — Howard Tayler
Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
— Andrea Gibson
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ...
— J. Michael Straczynski
Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.
— Gabrielle Roth
Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.
— Glenn Haybittle
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
— Samuel Johnson
Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".
— King Louie
This was perhaps what you feared: to become inert in a body that still breathes, drinks, and feeds itself. To commit suicide in slow motion.
— Edouard Leve
True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!
— Lorii Myers
Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.
— John Paul Warren
I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
— Andrew Motion
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
— Lord Byron
A gut feeling is a mover and shaker. It charges up the mind and puts the body in motion. A gut feeling is this: it's alive.
— C.C. Wyatt
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
— Norma Shearer
The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.
— William Randolph Hearst
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
— James Altucher
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.
— Oscar Micheaux
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
— Andrew Motion
Sex is an emotion in motion.
— Mae West
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.
— Andrew Motion
A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.
— Bruce Wilkinson
The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
— Marya Mannes
Eye's follow energy more than motion.
— Bradley Henderson
Motion is tranquility.
— Stirling Moss
It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
— Gerald Vizenor
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
— John Lawson
The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
— George Harrison
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
— Samuel Fuller
I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
— Kurt Russell
I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.
— Candas Jane Dorsey
I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.
— Gonjasufi
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
— Austin O'Malley
Pono always say slow-motion vulgar.
— Kiana Davenport
I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.
— Willie Stargell
We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.
— Richard Paul Evans
People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment ... when one thing changes into something else.
— Andre Kertesz
Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.
— J. Valor
One single equation for the motion of the Moon covers some 250 large-size pages and represents the major effort of a lifetime
— Fred L. Whipple
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
— J.J. Abrams
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
— Andrew Motion
Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.
— William Shakespeare
Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.
— Dexter Palmer
But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.
— Dexter Palmer
The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
— John Hanning Speke
All around us, Karachi kept moving
— Kamila Shamsie
The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.
— David Simon
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He moved like a jungle cat, all purposeful, calculated motion - wrapped up in fluid grace.
— Brigid Kemmerer
We are love in slow motion. We move as one, leaving the darkness behind, where it belongs, and become the light.
— J.A. Huss
It was funny how the monumental shit in your life tends to happen in slow-motion and at warp speed at the same time.
— N.R. Walker
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion.
— Swami Vivekananda
As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace.
— Joyce Carol Oates
An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently — David Antin
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently — David Antin
Your motive influences your motion.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be.
— Dexter Palmer
If she ran, at least her body still had motion, even if her brain was mired under responsibility.
— Lish McBride
... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.
— Rebecca Solnit
[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
— Thomas Jefferson
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed
— Frederick Buechner
That's what war was. A great motion and then a great stillness in which the winner crouches and the loser lies facing the sky.
— Kathy Hepinstall
The night, a living presence, was in constant motion, shifting itself, sighing, breathing. She wondered if perhaps it, too, was trying to get warm.
— Laird Koenig
Sex is emotion in motion.
— Mae West
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.
— Plato
The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
— Wayde Goodall
Set your desires in motion by connecting to the heart conscious.
— Steven Redhead
If you are in 'motion' than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are 'emotional' than you are in an agitated state.
— Dada Bhagwan
I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
— Melody Beattie
O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena
— William Shakespeare
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
— Richard E. Byrd
Prayer is what starts a heart in motion
— Phil Mitchell
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
— Andrew Motion
Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion ...
— Alessandro Volta
Writing is thinking in slow motion.
— Walter Kaufmann
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
— Andrew Motion
I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
— George Eastman
Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.
— William Least Heat-Moon
To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.
— Conrad Hilton
It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.
— Dexter Palmer
Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.
— Kim Edwards
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
— Rebecca MacKinnon