Ryan Adams Quotes

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

Not all speed is movement.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

...rapid motion through space elates one.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.