Gravity Quotes - Page 16

• What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Weight, Deeds

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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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• I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Eye, Space

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.196, Random House

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Gravity is a response to geometry.

  Albert Einstein

  Geometry, Response

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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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• As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Subtle

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• Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

  Stephen Hawking

  Strong, Fall, Space

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.46, Random House

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• We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Law, Perfect, Leaving

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• CO2 cannot cause global warming. I'll tell you why. It doesn't mix well with the atmosphere, for one. For two, its specific gravity is 1 1/2 times that of the rest of the atmosphere. It heats and cools much quicker. Its radiative processes are much different. So it cannot - it literally cannot cause global warming.

  Joe Bastardi

  Two, Atmosphere, Different

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• Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.

  Jessica Simpson

  Asks

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• Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Heart, Shadow

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

  Albert Einstein

  Love Is, Men, Doe

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• Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

  Daniel Tosh

  Believe, People, Stills

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• When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, Jeans, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Years, Monsters, Weak

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• If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Law, Stories, Steps

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• Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Fall, Simple

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• Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

  Thomas Frank

  Leader, Typical, Campaigns

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• Australians have defied global economic gravity.

  Wayne Swan

  Economic

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• No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Plato, Space, Answers

  "Peering Through the Gates of Time" by Dennis Overbye, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 2002.

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• What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll transform into an iridescent lime-green behemoth so he can take on an even bigger behemoth? That he knows he's living in a computer-generated universe in which gravity is a feeble suggestion and nothing is remotely at stake, and that when he hits the ground he'll be replaced by a special effect. The Incredible Hulk is weightless-as disposable as an Xbox game.

  David Edelstein

  Xbox, Heart, Men

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