motion quotes

• Never confuse motion with action. (Benjamin Franklin) [motion/action]
• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. (James Baldwin) [question/motion/love]
• The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn. (Raymond Chandler) [motion/lady/more/film]
• The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. (Raymond Chandler) [motion/art/treatment/wonder]
• Never confuse motion with action. (Ernest Hemingway) [motion/action]
• Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. (Samuel Johnson) [desire/life/motion]
• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect. (Ben Jonson) [brain/motion/mind]
• The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [motion/interest]
• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. (George Meredith) [human/motion/account]
• I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion. (Ezra Pound) [america/motion/motion]
• The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex. (Adam Smith) [motion/more]
• What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? (Oscar Wilde) [mind/motion]
• Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent. (William Wordsworth) [take/sky/motion]
• We've had a long ride back from a cancellation of a short-lived television series to the release of a major motion picture. I don't know if there's any other story equivalent to that in Hollywood history (Adam Baldwin) [television/motion]
• You watch yourself doing things because you have set in motion events which will change your life. (Alan Rickman) [motion/willpower/change/life]
• It's almost like movies in theaters aren't meant to be intelligent. Major motion pictures are meant to entertain. (Omar Epps) [motion]
• I get motion sickness really easy. (Mark Wahlberg) [motion]
• An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. (Marilu Henner) [thing/motion/take]
• I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. (Shirley Jones) [motion/family]
• After we finished his scene, Dad wrote me a letter saying that in his 41 years of making motion pictures, he had never seen a crew so devoted to their director, nor a director so devoted to his crew. (Peter Fonda) [letter/motion/director/director]
• “I was struggling with my serve the whole match, ... I was kind of nervous and couldn't do the right motion. But I didn't want to stay and play three sets, it was hot and she was in good shape. So I started go for winners.” (Elena Dementieva) [right/motion]
• “(During the first visit) I'll run (the horses) in a straight line, evaluate how the horse is moving, look at how it stands, the angle of its feet, range of motion for all of its joints...Then I'll spend a good 45 minutes massaging for the first time,” (Christine Taylor) [horse/look/motion]
• “Buyer should be aware that 'CELL' is a violent piece of work, which comes complete with zombies set in motion by bad cell phone signals that destroy the human brain.” (Stephen King) [motion/phone/destroy/human]
• I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul. (Conrad Veidt) [think/motion/business/time]

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