Gravity Quotes - Page 20

• Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Cohesion, Mythology, Inconvenient

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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• Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

  George Saunders

  Dancing, Fiction, Realism

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.

  Frank Iero

  Fans, Sometimes, Vinyl

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Men, Sun

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• The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

  Sue Grafton

  Stars, Memories, Dark

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.28, Macmillan

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• There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields.

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Atlantis, Fields

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• If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

  Vera Caspary

  Dream, Men, Would Be

  Laura ch. 2 (1943)

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• The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

  Scott Hahn

  Law, Feels, Inexorable

  Scott Hahn (2007). “Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith”, p.9, Image

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• Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

  Sophy Burnham

  Prayer, Believe, Law

  Sophy Burnham (2002). “The Path of Prayer: Reflections on Prayer and True Stories of How It Affects Our Lives”, Viking Adult

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• Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there).

  John Noble Wilford

  Eye, Night, Light

  John Noble Wilford (1991). “Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges, the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space”, Vintage

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• It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Men, Self

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• I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

  Kurt Browning

  Sports, People, Skating

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• So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the 9-to-5-in' bus ridin' dudes And four times for my dreamers, yo I'm just like you That's why I sing for my queens with their own pair of wings My brothers flyin' beside me, drama behind me Mama tried to find me, she inquired emphatically I was in the sky with all these other ghetto kids, defying gravity, uh

  Danny Denzongpa

  Brother, Queens, Drama

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• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  Dan Barker

  Real, Sunday, Hands

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• The trouble with plastic surgery is that after 10 years, gravity wins out and you have to have another one in a year or so.

  Linda Evans

  Winning, Years, Trouble

  "Linda Evans Says No To More Plastic Surgery" by wenn.com, November 27, 2000.

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• In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Doubt, Gold, Causes

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• Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

  Richard Lewontin

  Work Out, Currents, Optimist

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• 85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Percent, Knows, Universe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Should Have, Matter

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

  Bill Nye

  Believe, Evolution

  Source: blogs.kcrw.com

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• There are a sort of men, whose visages
  Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
  And do a willful stillness entertain,
  With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
  Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
  As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
  And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

  William Shakespeare

  Wisdom, Dog, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.

  Trudi Canavan

  Real, Mean, Law

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• You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

  Lisa Randall

  Distance, Weak, Modest

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• I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

  Matt Stone

  Emotional, Use, Levels

  "'South Park''s Matt Stone". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. April 12, 2010.

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• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Origin Of Life, Essence

  Charles Darwin (2003). “The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.452, Penguin

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