Escape Velocity Quotes

#1. He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

Douglas Adams

#2. In order to achieve escape velocity, we must learn to keep our own counsel, to move silently among doubters, to voice our plans only among our allies, and to name our allies accurately.

Julia Cameron

#3. We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

Evan Spiegel

#4. Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

Junot Diaz

#5. You is smart, you is kind and you is important. From the book/movie "The Help

Kathryn Stockett

#6. Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Sheryl Crow

#7. I was leaving this small Arizona town in a few weeks, and I felt less like someone preparing to climb a career ladder than a buzzing electron about to achieve escape velocity, flinging out into a strange and sparkling universe.

Paul Kalanithi

#8. I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.

Elena Ferrante

#9. It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

Lawrence Fagg

#10. A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.

Rahul Gandhi

#11. There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

William Cowper Prime

#12. From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

Jose Saramago

#13. Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Amber Rose

#14. Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.

Philip K. Dick

#15. Fear is the most powerful adhesive we have. Fear unites, because if two people are afraid, then even as the authentic ties that may have once bound them disappear, the fear ties are as sticky as a spider's web.

Ramani Durvasula

#16. I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

Mary MacLane

#17. Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

Mason Cooley

#18. You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.

Tim Tebow

#19. Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse - constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. However

Sam Harris

#20. The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Douglas Fairbanks

#21. But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them.

Orson Scott Card