Motionless

Famous quotes containing the word motionless:

“The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)

“A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)