Relative Uniform Motion

Famous quotes containing the words relative, uniform and/or motion:

    “It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent—a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion—macho, sotto voce.”
    —Phil Patton (b. 1953)

    “... The festival-colored brightness
    That is their motion ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)