Quotes tagged ‘gravity’

“All of a sudden it's not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her.”

— Melissa Rosenberg, Jacob Black, Taylor Lautner, imdb.com

“Our dead friend used to say when she reached menopause the swamp cleared from her mind the sun shone brightly for the first time since girlhood she could think clearly things were outlined as if in lights a dog was a dog and a man was only a man ~ Imprisoned in the arms of Eros you relax you blur yo…”

— Alicia Suskin Ostriker, apmpodcasts.org

“I think we've underestimated the life on this planet. The people have so much courage. Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.”

— Bonnie Turner, Dick Solomon, John Lithgow, imdb.com

“Everyone's saying that it's just too good to believe, calling me foolish for falling in your gravity. I got a word for that and the word is jealousy — wishing they were you and me.”

— Carlie Hanson, open.spotify.com

“you turning a thought into love for a stranger may be the only gravity that keeps them strong enough to keep holding on”

— Jacqueline Whitney, instagram.com

“You win again gravity.”

— Lewis Morton, Zapp Brannigan, Billy West, imdb.com

“History is like gravity.”

— The Goo Goo Dolls, open.spotify.com

“Be careful! There's a lot of gravity out there!”

— Siobhan Byrne O'Connor, David Breckman, Tom Scharpling, Adrian Monk , Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com

“Leonard: You are not Isaac Newton. Sheldon: No, no, that’s true. Gravity would have been apparent to me without the apple.”

— Stephen Engel, Chuck Lorre, Lee Aronsohn, Bill Prady, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com

“There seems to be a mysterious force in the universe, one that overwhelms gravity on the grandest scale to push the cosmos apart….We call it ‘dark energy,’ but that name, like ‘dark matter,’ is merely a code word for our ignorance. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our igno…”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“The Theory of Evolution, like the Theory of Gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science, in my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“The space shuttle has something that looks very much like a toilet. And on Earth, a toilet works because of gravity. It pulls the water away from your body. In space, you have to use something to pull the liquid from your body, so the space toilet uses air suction. It pulls the liquid from your body…”

— Sally Ride, teacher.scholastic.com

“I know this defies the law of gravity, but I never studied law!”

— Tedd Pierce, Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc, imdb.com

“Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.”

— Michael Maltese, Bugs Bunny, Mel Blanc, imdb.com

“Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity;—not to gravity as such;—for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together;—but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it…”

— Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, amazon.com

“Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!”

— Adam Savage, boingboing.net

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”

— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org

“Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

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

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

““Everything else in astronomy is like the eye. Finally, astronomy grew ears. We never had ears before.””

— SZABOLCS MARKA, nytimes.com