Seanan McGuire Quotes

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

So, I'm not the only one who believes that there is such a thing as "the law of gravity," and if it's a law, it can be violated. If you hit the ground at 120 mph from 1,000 feet, you will suffer the consequences of violating what physics.about.com calls the law of gravity.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.