Quotes About Earth Rotation

#1. My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea, and my eyes are the color of water.

Anais Nin

#2. Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation; changing another's is even harder.

Maximus Freeman

#3. Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#4. The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

Mason Cooley

#5. Don't wait for Happiness someday. Create Happiness each day." Ray White

Ray White

#6. The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.

Galileo Galilei

#7. Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.

Sarah Noffke

#8. Yet knowing the physics steals none of the wonder as the sky turns from blue to crimson, then deep purple, and finally embraces the black of night as Earth's rotation

Gerald Schroeder

#9. Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Sarah McLachlan

#10. Call it the Darwinian contradiction. We come down from the trees and walk upright and what do we get for it? Foot pain! Bad backs! We cease living sexual lives regulated by mating seasons, by hormonal tides or the rotation of the earth and what happens? Marital misery. Divorce. Rape.

Jonathan Rosen

#11. Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons.

Donald Sinden

#12. We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Alan Cohen

#13. I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

Olivia Thirlby

#14. Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

Shawn Achor

#15. When I got the chance
I asked them a slew of questions.
They offered to burn me;
it was the only thing they knew.

Pablo Neruda

#16. After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

Alfred North Whitehead

#17. The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

James Lileks

#19. The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

Anaxagoras

#20. Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever and whenever this happens, the locked moon shows only one face to its host planet.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutionary, and some just think I'm crazy.

Paul Stamets

#22. Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.

Karen Thompson Walker

#23. Sometimes I imagine I can feel the earth pause in its rotation, can feel it pause and look at us as if wondering, Just who the hell do you think you are?

Rick Bass

#24. There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

Sandra Bullock

#25. Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel

#26. If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was

Albert Schweitzer

#27. The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Tom Stoppard