Gravity Quotations

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the speed of light has actually increased.

Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth, like gravity, that can make things a bit challenging. One of the fun things about getting here is the zero gravity and floating around. But it also makes things very difficult.

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

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

The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.

It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,

We are making a clear statement today about the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender.

Three strong advertising associations, a leading email association and two consumer advocacy/online privacy organizations coming together is a rare and powerful coalition. The fact that we have come together so strongly is testament to the gravity of our concerns about this Act.

We know what their centers of gravity are. Some of those can be attacked by the other elements of our government. Some could be attacked by us.

With this method, we let the gravity of a dim, intervening star act as a giant natural telescope for us, magnifying a more distant star, which then temporarily looks brighter.

We're seeing a shift in the federal government's understanding of the gravity of the situation facing California. The governor's forcing all parties to take responsibility to ensure California does not have its own version of Katrina.

Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things,

What the string theorists do is arguably physics. It deals with the physical world. They're attempting to make a consistent theory that explains the interactions we see among particles and gravity as well. That's certainly physics, but it's a kind of physics that is not yet testable.

When he gets going, he?s extremely powerful. He loves physical contact. He?s strong on his feet, has a low center of gravity and accelerates into hits with his knees bent.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

We are hopeful that the gravity of these cost increases will be embraced and that we will see the additional relief that we feel is warranted.

We hope to make clear to president Milosevic and the people of Yugoslavia the extreme gravity of the situation,

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

The prime minister, after two months of deafness, is realizing the gravity of the situation he has created in the country.

Many people believe that only gravity creates wrinkles; however, we have discovered the loss of volume in the face and changes in bone structure also contribute to making us look older.

Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical characters - these figures have real weight. They might be just made out of words and paper, but their effect in the world can be massive, if they've got the right kind of mass, the right kind of gravity and momentum.

She is a center of gravity in the Democratic Party with the ability to draw cash in by herself. Can you think of a bigger draw than Hillary? It's not Howard Dean.

One important early application of RAVE aims to measure just how much stuff there is in our Milky Way galaxy -- the collection of stars, gas and dark matter that is the home of our sun. Newton's Law of Gravity allows us to figure out from the orbital motions of stars how much mass is holding them together. Faster motions need more mass. We know from analyzing the motions in other galaxies that there is a lot more mass than we can see and this dark matter appears to dominate. But we are not sure exactly how much dark matter is needed in our own galaxy, and we don't know what the dark matter is made up of. That information is important, and the RAVE survey is going to help us answer some of those questions.

Moreover, there is no difference between the earth's centers of gravity and magnitude.

My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like the Burberry show and the Live Lounge, so they understand the gravity of those things, but they're proud - it's cool.

Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.

Basically, Americans do not understand the gravity of the oversights on what appears to be the case with both the FBI and the CIA,

China's efforts to improve corporate governance and undertake a broad range of structural and institutional reforms will further enhance its competitive position as a financial and trade center of gravity in the region.

I failed to recognize how important it was to elevate a matter of such gravity to the highest levels, including the president and the members of Congress,

He understood the gravity of what happened. He's definitely remorseful.

He works so hard, he's just relentless. He's built low to the ground so he has a low center of gravity and he's tough to knock off the ball. He's not one of those that seems to get angry. He just keeps playing.

He looked great to me. He's quick, he's fast, he's got a low center of gravity when he runs. I mean, he looked good.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

He wasn't on anybody's radar for this year. He sort of made his first impression on the snowboarding circuit at the Gravity Games (last winter) when he landed a cab 1080. That's the requisite trick of this year's Olympics.

'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

It had the effect that any economist would have told you. To believe the laws of economic gravity have changed over time is wrong.

I think this employment report shows that the laws of gravity do apply to monetary policy,

It is important for parents and guardians to not underestimate the gravity of the situation. Overweight backpacks can result in numerous short-term and chronic health concerns,

It is an interesting case. It's interesting because a judge has to consider the fact that this is a state that's suing. It's not a school district. It's not a teacher's union. It's the state of Connecticut. So that adds a lot more gravity to the lawsuit.

I think the same thing would be true of going to Mars. As long as people worked very hard, they would be in reasonably good shape and they would quickly recover, especially with a little bit of lighter gravity there.

Over the lakes, the pull of gravity is much weaker, so we know there must be a big hole down there.

Our products overcome two essential forces in the world: gravity and weather.

Steve's early work had a lasting effect on me. The density and the gravity of the sound was so great it prevents recollection. The power of Steve's music has to do with its sound. Tempo counts, and language is pushed to the breaking point, where the meaning of the word is obliterated and lets the music out.

I think he was concerned he was letting down a lot of people but also had concern about the gravity of the situation.

Judges look at the gravity of the offence and the responsibility of the offender in determining sentences,

We have one of the best production facilities in the world - it is gravity processing. We don't use a pump. If you use a pump, a lot of air gets in and it hurts the structure of the wine. We use pipes, and it flows freely. There is a 20-meter drop from fermentation tanks to the bottle line.

Whoever claims that there were 4,000 victims is denying the gravity of this disaster and ignoring the suffering of countless people.

We realize the gravity of the situation, ... Everybody concerned wants to see the U.S. back on top and nothing less will do.

While both companies, EMC and Sun, are leaders... a slowdown in corporate information-technology spending can impact both companies' financial performance -- gravity is bound to take over.

Well, when do we talk about it? They don't seem to understand the gravity of this.

We're using a force main because it's more cost effective than extending a gravity main, and we don't think there's any loss of efficiency or availability for other property owners.

When you're relying on something that uses electrical power and someone to do maintenance on the thing ... if you have a power failure that takes the station out, you run the risk of sewage backing up into homes. By putting in a gravity line we won't have to rely on electrical power to transport sewage.

To me, this looks like continuation of crude oil escaping the gravity of reality.

To me, these bids are classic top of the market stuff. The Irish property market can't defy the laws of gravity forever. I'm trying to persuade my wife to sell our house now before prices fall.

Gravity wins over all other known forces.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.

What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?

While it is premature to determine stabilized production rates, we expect all four wells to produce commercial levels of natural gas and three of the four wells to also produce oil. The oil has been analyzed to be 40 degree gravity sweet crude.

Firing squads are used in extremely serious cases ... Given the gravity of this case, it's possible that this is the mechanism that will be used,

The good news is nobody was injured and it's only property damage. The runoff was such that the gutters couldn't hold it, then gravity took over and pulled it into the mall.

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.

Those wanting wit affect gravity and go by the name of solid men

We go forward with their sacrifice etched in our hearts, with a clear reminder of the gravity of our responsibilities and the vigilance necessary to preserve our way of life,