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  • Love is metaphysical gravity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You can't blame gravity for falling in love. -- Albert Einstein
  • I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. -- Sebastian Thrun
  • Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. -- Dave Barry
  • It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. -- Kofi Annan
  • Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. -- Stephen Hawking
  • It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. -- Wernher von Braun
  • You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. -- Alan Cohen
  • To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. -- Confucius
  • 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. -- Laurel Clark
  • Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think. -- Hugh Laurie
  • Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. -- Walter Anderson
  • Gravity is a response to geometry. -- Albert Einstein
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  • Gravity is more suggestive than convincing. -- Douglas William Jerrold
  • Gravity wins over all other known forces. -- Andrea M. Ghez
  • Gravity is on duty all of the time. -- Laurence Gonzales
  • Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate. -- Lebbeus Woods
  • Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries. -- Henry Fielding
  • Gravity proves that the whole universe is filled with Love. -- Ankala V Subbarao
  • Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law! -- Adam Savage
  • Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith. -- Warren Miller
  • Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it. -- Confucius
  • I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law -- John Pinette
  • Interviewer: "What keeps you grounded?" Bieber: "Gravity." Interviewer: "What's up, Justin?" Bieber: "The sky, man." -- Justin Bieber
  • Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. -- Isaac Newton
  • Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters. -- Alex Hirsch
  • Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud! -- Alex Hirsch
  • When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself -- Ida Rolf
  • To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?" -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line. -- Betty White
  • I did see 'Gravity,' but I don't have the enthusiasm to go see a movie as often as I used to go. -- Robert Osborne
  • Gravity is neither a force nor a consequence of any space-time curvature. It is simply an orderly spatial illusion to non-spatial observer/s. -- Kedar Joshi
  • Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
  • Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds." -- Mary Roach
  • What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background. -- Gavin Hood
  • Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds. -- Mary Roach
  • Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window. -- Richard Dawkins
  • What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing? --Gravity's Rainbow, V699 -- Thomas Pynchon
  • 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. -- Alfonso Cuaron
  • My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working! -- Alex Hirsch
  • Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age. -- Tina Fey
  • Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle. -- Scott Westerfeld
  • Well, duh. You're cuter than she is." He said it like he might say, Grass is green or, Gravity works. Something warm opened up inside my chest. It was a nice feeling. -- Lilith Saintcrow
  • We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. -- Fred Frith
  • Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like? -- John Falsey
  • Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers. -- Dave Barry
  • Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • Dramatically, the moment in 'Gravity' that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she's out of fuel. That's when the character's arc gets defined. -- Alfonso Cuaron
  • To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"]. -- Sandra Bullock
  • 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. -- Johannes Kepler
  • But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope. -- Callie Khouri
  • I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool. -- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
  • Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Gravity, a mysterious carriage of the body to conceal the defects of the mind." -- Ezra Pound
  • She felt as if she had been running, and had created a hill and was racing down the other side, and there was no stopping now. Gravity was taking her where she had to go. "But -- everyone cares about something. Don't they? -- Cassandra Clare
  • I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh. -- Russell Brand
  • One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made. -- Isaac Newton
  • Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay in the bottom of the glass. It distributes itself evenly over time throughout the entire volume of the glass. -- Laurel Clark
  • And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day. -- Joan Baez
  • I defy gravity. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Love is the social equivalent of gravity. -- Morris Berman
  • I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back. -- Tinie Tempah
  • I've been noticing gravity since I was very young. -- Cameron Diaz
  • We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wernher von Braun
  • Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light. -- Roy H. Williams
  • I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics. -- Brian Greene
  • Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. -- Edward Weston
  • I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me. -- Ted Nugent
  • I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • 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. -- Edward Witten
  • 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. -- Marianne Moore
  • 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 Yves Cousteau
  • 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 -- Matthew Barney
  • Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from. -- Ben Stein
  • 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. -- William Allingham
  • Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -- Aristotle
  • I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
  • We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating. -- Adam Riess
  • Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. -- Stephen Hawking
  • A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. -- Seth MacFarlane
  • The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God. -- Seth Shostak
  • Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works. -- Alan Moore
  • People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. -- Charles Darwin
  • You have to fight gravity. -- Sherwin Wine
  • Love is a metaphysical gravity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
  • I don't understand water and gravity. -- Camille
  • Australians have defied global economic gravity. -- Wayne Swan
  • [D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity. -- Willis Regier
  • They defy gravity, as good books should. -- David Levithan
  • Tonality is a natural force, like gravity. -- Paul Hindemith
  • High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. -- Cecil Day-Lewis
  • Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity. -- Simone Weil
  • The dominant expression of a child is gravity. -- Bret Harte
  • You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care. -- Clayton Christensen
  • Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity. -- Gabrielle Zevin
  • May your dreams defy the laws of gravity. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity. -- Ken Kutaragi
  • I am not anti rain,I am anti gravity. -- Pushpa Rana
  • Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. -- Charles Caleb Colton
  • The gravity is the first thing which you don't think -- Albert Einstein
  • Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up. -- Wayne Coyne
  • Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly. -- William Hazlitt
  • You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly. -- Shawn Achor
  • A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity. -- Mesut Ozil
  • Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Autumn is a classical music; when it begins, the gravity disappears! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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