Stationary Quotes

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

“Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.”

“This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things. We have a built-in bias toward detecting action. Why? Because it's probably more critical for animals to spot moving things (predators, prey, falling trees) than static things, which can wait. In fact, our vision is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all. To see something stationary, our brains have to scribble our eyes subtly over its surface. Experiments have even proven that if you artificially stabilize an image on the retina with a combination of special contact lenses and microelectronics, the image will vanish.”

“The stationary condition is the beginning of the end”

“Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.”

“The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.”

“I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.”

“Her killer wrote a note on that stationary.""A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?”

“When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.”

“Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.”