Top 240 Motion Quotes

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion ’tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Richard Blackmore
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
Charles Platt
When I first did ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.
Andy Serkis
One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
Helen Frankenthaler
One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.
Valerie Faris
I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of the motion of the earth. I found it a remarkable thing.
Vera Rubin
There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don’t even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out.
Lawrence Taylor
I hate the beep beep of the car, when I put in motion and I have not fasten my seat belt. From how annoying this sound is to me every morning, I understand immediately how the day will be.
Adriano Giannini
I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.
Michael Giacchino
The drive for happiness is vital; it’s what keeps us in motion.
Richard Gere
There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.
John McDonald
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.
Laurence Sterne
By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.
Brian Greene
I’ve got a quiet voice. I think it’s because as a child I didn’t speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.
Daniel Tammet
Creativity is every company’s first driver. It’s where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
Nolan Bushnell
Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It’s about putting my music into motion. It’s just another dimension that I tap into with my music that not many artists do anymore.
Tinashe
Dahj kind of sets everything in motion starting Picard on a new mission.
Isa Briones
There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
Boo Weekley
I was the first wrestler ever in the history of wrestling to star in a major motion studio picture that became #1 box office of the weekend, and that gave the itch to I don’t know how many wrestlers.
Roddy Piper
I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
LaToya London
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.
Rebecca MacKinnon
As an actor, you want convince the audience that you can do different things. So, if I have to run in slow motion, I am more than happy to romance.
Tahir Raj Bhasin
Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you’re coming into a show that’s already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on ‘Saving Hope’ was so welcoming.
Erin Karpluk
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Richard E. Byrd
I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it’s your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.
Mark Sanchez
The president’s decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb… has placed us on the knife-edge of history.
Henry M. Jackson
There’s this homogenization, this big sucking motion in dominant society, to absorb all the disparate elements that define the margin or define the culture or define those who are thrust outside the status quo.
Todd Haynes
Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.
Richard Preston
In my first-ever shot, there was a big shell that was dropped on my belly in slow motion. I even asked the director why we are doing it, and he said it would look beautiful… and I wondered, ‘Really? But why and how?’
Ileana D’Cruz
Whether it’s an ad or organic content, video provides a new creative dimension for storytelling on ‘Instagram’. Video lets people convey the power and beauty in a moment through sight, sound, and motion.
Kevin Systrom
When I’m building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision – I’ve worked on perpetual motion and I haven’t never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
Howard Finster
I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.
Norm MacDonald
If ‘Emotions in Motion’ comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.
Billy Squier
With yoga, it works every part of the body and increases range of motion. People think you get super flexible and you lose your power in sport. I’m getting back to normal because I’m so wound up and tight.
Christen Press
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.
Leonardo da Vinci
We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl – 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be stretched into three and a half hours or more of money-making commercials.
George Vecsey
I guess I’m fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn’t matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.
Arthur Ganson
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
Cinema brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It’s an art in motion.
Sowcar Janaki
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 the time that ‘Harlow’ would be my last motion picture.
Ginger Rogers
Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
Sarah Kay
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 freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.
Paul Allen
Actors’ performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director – whether it’s in slow motion or whether it’s quick cut – or… the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you’re wearing or the makeup.
Andy Serkis
The waves from all the different parts of a sphere would cancel each other out. You need motion that’s nonspherical.
Rainer Weiss
Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.
William Godwin
We always try to go back to character: What do they want? What are they doing? What’s in motion that they’re dealing with? When things get particularly heavy, we will take a step back and look at who has some room to have some things lighter, funnier, or sweeter happen.
Peter Paige
Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.
George Grey
In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you’re measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.
Mario Cuomo
The whole podium time was like it was in slow motion. I was watching the flag go up realizing I’m part of one of the greatest countries on earth.
Caeleb Dressel
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow,

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Richard Blackmore