14 Kinetic Quotes for You to Enjoy

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. Vladimir Nabokov

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Most sponges in the ocean are sedentary: They attach themselves to a rock and sit and filter-feed the rest of their lives and reproduce, and that's about it. Not that they are not interesting, but they are not that kinetic. They are not mobile. They don't cook Krabbie Patties! Stephen Hillenburg

Rest Ocean Sit Sedentary Kinetic About Attach Most Rock Mobile Reproduce Interesting Themselves Cook Lives

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. Tony Kushner

When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system. Wolfgang Ketterle

Energy Colder Air Way System Characterize High Temperature Kinetic Simply Smaller Hot Subsequently Move Molecules Fast

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion. Kate Millett

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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge. Damien Chazelle

Battle Space Car Challenge Kinetic Someone Scene Chase Stuck Feel Drum Drum Set Drums Make Arms Limbs Around Behind Just Moving Film Actually Playing Set

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir. Lenny Abrahamson

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My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion. Paul Greengrass

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Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain. Linford Christie

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In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will tell you that that's really non-Newtonian. You can't just absorb energy, you've gotta change it into something else. Brian Stelfreeze

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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel. Tony Gilroy

Alone Time You Director Writing Shopping Will Wind Sit Out Kinetic All-Time Rushing Scene High-Speed Head Picking Come Like Most Intense Tunnel Really Your Hard Chair Actor Pull

The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on - in ensemble as well as solo sections - the mood of a jazz soloist. I mean that principle of kinetic improvisation that keeps a jazz solo building. Cecil Taylor

'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic. John Patrick Shanley

Stage Incredibly Athletic Kinetic Miracle Powerful Just Worker Play

According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature. Wilhelm Wien

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