Gravity Quotes - Page 12

• They defy gravity, as good books should.

  David Levithan

  Book, Good Book, Should

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, News, World

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• In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Moving, Space

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• You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Different, Rooms, Havens

  Michael Marshall Smith (2010). “Only Forward (Voyager Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

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• I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.

  Paul Auster

  Powerful, Fall, Men

  Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.45, Penguin

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• Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fall, Boys, Apples

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• The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Humor, Science, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.131, Del Rey

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• In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people---lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Ocean, Eye

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• I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17 weeks, but then my center of gravity and balance were completely off.

  Marisa Miller

  Ocean, Swimming, Balance

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• Well, duh. You're cuter than she is." He said it like he might say, Grass is green or, Gravity works. Something warm opened up inside my chest. It was a nice feeling.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Nice, Feelings, Duh

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• In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Real, Struggle, Style

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• Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

  Simone Weil

  Light, Two, Force

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Orange, Anxiety, Bells

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• Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Flying, Magic

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  Ted Nugent

  Dog, Hate, Hunting

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• People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  War, Years, People

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• The secret of poetry is never explained,— is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, and the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, and knows not that they are such. 'T is as easy as breath. 'T is like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, and none knows what it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Play, House

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Past, Stories, Facts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.187, Scholastic Inc.

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• I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Believe, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to our children; and that it is our duty, not to lead religion whither we would, but rather to follow religion whither it leads; and that it is the part of Christian modesty and gravity not to hand down our own beliefs or observances to those who come after us, but to preserve and keep what we have received from those who went before us.

  Vincent of Lerins

  Christian, Children, Father

  Vincent of Lerins, Aeterna Press (2016). “The Commonitory of Vincent of Lerins”, p.11, Aeterna Press

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• Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Rocks, Kitchen

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• Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

  Charles Nodier

  Fall, Add, Strange

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• ‎Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Matter, Planets, Imprinting

  "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.

  Jack Kornfield

  Expression, Long, Childhood

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• Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Substance, Weight, Genuine

  Tim O'Brien (2011). “Tomcat in Love”, p.46, Broadway Books

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