Top 1200 Laws Of Motion Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

It's poetry in motion, when she turned her tender eyes to me.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.

I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race and the motion picture industry.

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

We know that slow-motion renovations in tight jeans make for a great episode.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.

I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.

E-Motion will have a very positive impact on the evolution of human consciousness

Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is absolutely the case. Leading off from formal poetry, there is something about when you pay attention to form and you allow it to have its own laws and you listen to those laws you really do end up in places you wouldn't otherwise go. Which isn't to say that I believe in following the rules when I write. I don't. Each of the forms in my books feels to me new.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.

If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level.

You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

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

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

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

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style.

Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.

It used to be my ambition to emulate Fred Astaire on the stage and in motion picture musicals.

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.

Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

I like my afterglow with you in motion. I measure time by how your body sways.