Top 66 Quotes About Perpetual Motion
#1. The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts
Its click
Creates perpetual motion
("The Head")
Blaise Cendrars
#2. Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.
Frederick Lenz
#3. How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?
Eugene H. Peterson
#4. To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
Freya Stark
#5. Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.
Beth Comstock
#6. I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
Kara Swisher
#7. Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#8. Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ.
Carl F. H. Henry
#9. But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
George Gabriel Stokes
#11. Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again ... , only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
Asger Jorn
#12. Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.
Scott Adams
#13. I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.
Charles Yu
#14. This game wears on you. It tears you down. It's perpetual motion for some people who've achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z - they don't need to do music anymore. But there's people who need it. And in that need, that's when it's tough and it tears you to pieces.
Lupe Fiasco
#15. My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.
Joan Collins
#16. I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
#17. Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?
T.H. White
#18. Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
Ben Nicholson
#19. Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
James Russell Lowell
#20. All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In
Richard Feynman
#22. Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?
Bob Dylan
#23. But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.
Haruki Murakami
#24. The young man is both like and unlike us."
Oberon paused his perpetual motion.
"Like and unlike? Could he be a changeling, one of the Faery?"
I shook my head. "He is human. I am certain. But he sees the world as it is and not as humans would have it be."
(p63)
A.C.E. Bauer
#25. Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.
Mallory Ortberg
#26. And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. Your love is poetry in perpetual motion capturing my heart with centrifugal force.
Truth Devour
#28. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.
David W. Earle
#29. The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#30. O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#31. When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
Howard Finster
#32. What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be.
Dexter Palmer
#33. As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.
Dexter Palmer
#34. All of us have days in our lives, perhaps three or four at the most, when what we might call disparate events converge.
Dexter Palmer
#35. I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.
Dexter Palmer
#36. There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes
#37. There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.
Dexter Palmer
#38. M. and I ground against each other as if we were ill-fitting jigsaw pieces determined to jam together, even though one showed sidewalk, the other sky.
Dexter Palmer
#39. Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.
Dexter Palmer
#40. The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Marquis De Sade
#41. Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.
Dexter Palmer
#42. Ah, but can one person ever really know another? Are we not all mysteries to each other?
Dexter Palmer
#43. Howard!' she hollered as the machines pulled her under. 'Howard!' At least she didn't remember my name, either.
Dexter Palmer
#44. They do think the world is some kind of science-fiction novel, then. Do you realize how fervently most people will believe in the promises of technology, even when those promises fly in the face of common sense?
Dexter Palmer
#45. But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.
Dexter Palmer
#46. I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.
Dexter Palmer
#47. You must have also observed the masculine bias in the English language itself, in which women - literally, 'not men' - are daily confronted with the terror, unknowable to men, of concepts which they can imagine, but which an inherently patriarchal language does not allow them to express.
Dexter Palmer
#48. I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.
Dexter Palmer
#49. Perhaps my gift to you will be as simple as a single word, whispered into your ear by one of your servants as you lie on your deathbed, a word that solves a final mystery and makes it easy for you to slip quietly into the dark.
Dexter Palmer
#50. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.
Dexter Palmer
#51. We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.
Dexter Palmer
#52. And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.
Dexter Palmer
#53. While they were floundering / I was pondering / 'No more wandering through the dark tunnels of grim determination / For no; it is time to grow in a thousand folded folds, for which we need an infinite fuel!
Nathan Coppedge
#54. I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.
Dexter Palmer
#55. There were hints and intimations of the shape of things to come.
Dexter Palmer
#56. In fact, although I am not aware of it (and I am never aware of it, no matter how many times I have the dream) her suicide is a foregone conclusion. It is this way in dreams: when decisions are being made, they have already been made.
Dexter Palmer
#57. Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.
Dexter Palmer
#58. I've had enough of stories and lies; enough of silent scribbling. Enough of gears and engines. Enough of daydreams and false futures. Enough of virgins and dynamos.
One word from you is all I want, she said. Just speak one word, and we'll begin.
Enough of wasting time.
Dexter Palmer
#59. The palimpsests of molecules need not be overwritten, for machines make once-ephemeral words persist: they collect in gutters; they pile up and require sweeping; they hang in air like morning fog.
Dexter Palmer
#60. It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.
Dexter Palmer
#61. He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.
Dexter Palmer
#62. In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire - not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.
Dexter Palmer
#63. Certain parts of me became a little bit forgotten, a little bit numb, a little bit dead, and it was nice to have some dead places in me for a little while, to lose a little bit of my broken mind.
Dexter Palmer
#64. That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of her.'
'Yeah, but that Dexter couldn't shut his piehole either,' Marlon says. 'I mean, Christ. Artists and writers - let them kill each other off in cage matches; let God sort 'em out.
Dexter Palmer
#65. Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.
Dexter Palmer
#66. It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.
Dexter Palmer
