Gravity Quotes - Page 23

• After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.

  David Boudia

  Gymnastics, Next, Quitting

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some degree that sets me up as boorish, but I'll have to live with that, and, honestly, I'd rather err on the side of being "unredeemingly dark," as one reviewer said about blood kin, than on keeping to the sunny side.

  Mark Powell

  Dark, Blood, Sides

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• However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

  George Coyne

  Religious, Successful, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Animal, Water, Community

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

  Steven Wright

  Confused, Confusion, Bird

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• Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would clearly leave them all behind because of its much greater magnitude. And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous.

  Ptolemy

  Moving, Fall, Science

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• Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Atlas, Kick Ass

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• When you're in zero gravity everything moves at the same speed and nothing stops it. If you throw something it travels forever but it still travels at the speed you threw it at. To make it plausible, movies have chosen to show it in slow motion.

  Danny Boyle

  Zero, Moving, Forever

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.

  Ed Helms

  Witty, Character, Play

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• The physical relationship between CO2 molecules and the atmosphere and the trapping of heat is as well-established as gravity, for God's sakes. It's not some mystery.

  Al Gore

  Atmosphere, Molecules, Sake

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

  Alex Hirsch

  Fall, Character, Magic

  "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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• My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

  Alex Hirsch

  Children, Fall, People

  "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

  Alex Hirsch

  Children, Fall, Army

  "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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• You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.

  Karen Armstrong

  Skills, Years, Law

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hero, Character, Two

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• Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

  Wernher von Braun

  Two, Tape, Red

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• You have to fight gravity.

  Sherwin Wine

  Fighting

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• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Sacrifice, Fate

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

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• Gravity is on duty all of the time.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Duty

  Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

  Shomei Tomatsu

  Photography, Moving, Mean

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• Real space movies have to involve zero gravity and a world without up or down.

  Jon Spaihts

  Zero, Real, Space

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Vision, Needs, Approval

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

  Mary Karr

  Morning, Loss, Moon

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• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Trouble, Time Machine

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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• Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Wrath, Spirit

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