Motion Quotes

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

The world is in motion, as it seems.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.

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 and the devil.

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 is two-dimensional.

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Never mistake motion for action.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.