Quotes About Velocity

I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Everything is already moving so very fast, but you need a great deal more speed than this to escape the earth's gravitational pull. Seven miles per second. More fuel, please.

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm a pitcher, but I think that's pretty cool that a guy can throw a ball 100 miles an hour.

As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

We need to build the infrastructure of the future, not just patch up that of the past. Failure to do so will only stall the current Reset and hold back recovery. We must make intelligent investments in new infrastructure that can move beyond the constraints of our current energy-inefficient, environmentally destructive, time-devouring infrastructure. We need to increase the velocity of moving people, good, and ideas.

The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.

a twenty-knot streak looked like; if there weren't

No se mucho de besos, pero yo le aseguro que los suyos no eran menos feroces que un enjambre de balas despedazando el aire

What's the fastest speed you ever went in your Spitfire?

miles an hour.

Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.

todo es cada vez más veloz, menos duradero, y se da de baja y se archiva más pronto, y nuestro pasado se hace cada vez más denso y amontonado y nutrido porque se decreta —y aun llega a creerse— que el ayer es ya caduco y el anteayer sólo historia, e inmemorial lo de hace un año.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

This quote I will do alone, leaving you behind. Don't follow. I'm well beyond you now, and traveling very fast.

A body at rest tends to remain at rest, and a body in motion tends to remain in motion.

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

They are often of hurricane intensity and with gust velocities sometimes attaining to 150 to 200 miles per hour.