Quotes about Motion

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

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.

Nothing happens until something moves.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Moving and motion tends to make things pop up. But things pop up for me, really, at just odd intervals or at random times that aren't really convenient, so I'm a big fan of the voice memo recorder on my phone. That's the only way I can remember things.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.