Escape Velocity Quotes

#1. 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

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

Junot Diaz

#3. 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

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

Rahul Gandhi

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Douglas Fairbanks

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

Tim Tebow

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

Mason Cooley

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

Mary MacLane

#13. 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

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

Amber Rose

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Sheryl Crow

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

Kathryn Stockett

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

Evan Spiegel