John Lasseter

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and having emotions, that's animation. But when you take something that's live-action, and move a part of it, that's a special effect.

American Director

Malaika Arora Khan

Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

Indian Actress

Neil Jordan

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

Irish Director

Robin Sloan

What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that's inert without the trigger of human attention.

American Author

Minor White

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

American Photographer

Shirley Chisholm

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

American Politician

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

American Poet

Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

American Historian

David James Duncan

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

American Novelist

John Cooper Clarke

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

English Poet

Used to describe something or someone that is not moving and seems almost lifeless.

Physical immobility

Can imply a lack of energy or enthusiasm in a person's behavior or state.

Lacking energy

In science, describes substances that don't react easily with other substances.

Chemical stability

Materials labeled as inert are often used for storing sensitive substances due to their reactivity.

Safe for storage

Describes actions, policies, or substances that don't produce the intended result.

No discernible effect

Can be used metaphorically to express that something is dull or lacking in impact.

Metaphorical usage

 which you all are very, very familiar with. It's changing our lives in so many ways, and it will continue to do that. What the essence of that is, is that we're taking the sand at our feet, the inert silicon at our feet, and we're breathing a level of complexity into it that rivals that of life itself,

Gregory Stock: To...

 long-distance drilling core into the center of rock that we bring up -- and there's bacteria in the pores of that rock. And wherever life is, it never retreats. It's ubiquitous and it wants to be more. More and more of the inert matter of the globe is being touched and animated by life.

Kevin Kelly: How...

 to calculate the effect of gravity he had been unable to figure out how it really works how is it that the Sun 93 million miles away somehow defect the motion of the earth how does the Sun reach out across empty inert space and exert influence and that as a task to a

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 Can chemistry permit making these really large molecules where we've never been before? And if we do, can we boot up a chromosome? A chromosome, by the way, is just a piece of inert chemical material. So, our pace of digitizing life has been increasing

Craig Venter: On the...

 to distribute the seaweed across vast areas of the ocean, rather than creating a big stinking pile in one place. It may be that we'll need to char the seaweed -- so create a sort of an inert, mineral biochar before we dispatch it into the deep.

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 happen on a completely different, unexpected phenomena. Those wonderfully inert, harmless CFCs, the magic molecules of shaving cream and hairspray, didn't simply vanish when we were done with them. They had an afterlife at the edge of space,

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 in tree sap. The sap or resin forms a protective seal around the entrapped organism. Over time, the soft resin hardens and turns into amber with the organism suspended within. This process creates a biologically inert tomb

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 And he goes to great lengths to protect the olive oil from oxygen and light. He uses tiny bottles, the glass is tinted, he tops the olive oil off with an inert gas. And he actually -- once he releases a batch of it,

Benjamin Wallace: The...

 I work in the mineral world. I work with more or less inert matter. And I organize it. And, well, it's also a bit different

Thom Mayne: Architecture...

 the whole city as a tech space like this here is the issue the technology is the inert of this city the rate of

Inert

Physical immobility

Lacking energy

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