Quotes About The Speed Of Sound

#1. That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.

Felix Baumgartner

#2. spin the rings above the speed of sound to establish the harmonic connection." Langford

Michael C. Grumley

#3. I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

Felix Baumgartner

#4. Longest free fall, highest skydive, and youngest person to break the speed of sound. You only set three world records. - Amy, to Dan

C. Alexander London

#5. For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

Martin Amis

#6. It fires .50 cal at twice the speed of sound. It will hit him before he ever hears the shot." My mother crossed her arms. "I'd like to see him bounce that off his chest.

Ilona Andrews

#7. Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

Graham Hawkes

#8. What we've got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Stephen King

#9. I wanted to run faster than the speed of sound, but nobody,no matter how much pain they're in, can run that fast.

Sherman Alexie

#10. I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Coolio

#11. I know I'll never be able control what other people think. It's not my job to convince others of who I am. My only job is to be who I am. All I can do is find what makes me happy, and live it.

Jen Wilde

#12. I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.

George Mason

#13. You sat around this fucking place moping like a damn child for the last six days. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're having your goddam man-period right now.

Danielle Jamie

#14. All things seek for comfort and no one wants discomfort. A sound mind does not just improve speed; it increases efficiency and joy, and bond the body and the soul perfectly as well!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#15. Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment ...
"Self-propulsion," such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

Dinty W. Moore

#16. Every bitter joule of rage had been converted into speed. She was empty. There was no pain. The air whistled past her ears. She listened intently. That silent music was all there was. It was the sound of the universe showing her mercy.

Chris Cleave

#17. Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

Albert Schweitzer

#18. From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.

Andrea Hirata

#19. When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

Henry Rollins

#20. I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.

Darlene Love

#21. He also suffered from a certain amount of what he calls "reputational confusion," in which he became known for being over-the-top effervescent, and the reputation fed on itself. This was the persona that others knew, so it was the persona he felt obliged to serve up.

Susan Cain

#22. As impossible as it may sound, but the CEC uses a calibration gear of 1,000 teeth to project a one day's measure of time (PI) onto a right triangle alongside the speed of light value (x=2.99792458) while uttering thereby the time it takes light to reach Earth coming from the Sun (8.3 minutes).

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#23. I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death - I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

Graeme Simsion

#24. I tried to take some of the same records that were important to me on my album Full Speed that my fans really vibed with content-wise and just made sure that the production and actual sound was put together differently and wasn't rushed as much.

Kid Ink

#25. The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

O. Winston Link

#26. God, what was wrong with her? This poor man had lost his wife and child, and she could only wonder what he looked like naked?
How sick was that?
And what did he look like naked?

Linda Kage

#27. The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.

Padma Venkatraman

#28. There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

Edgard Varese

#29. I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Dusty Springfield

#30. Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is vrooom.

Terry Pratchett

#31. We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Stephen L. Carter

#32. When love's the culmination / of everything you feel / then it's the only thing that's precious / it's the only thing that's real

Kim Wilde

#33. Three witches and a werewolf. If this wasn't so dire, it'd make one hell of a good joke.

Ellis Leigh

#34. On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

Joseph Brodsky

#35. There was an audible gasp, like everyone had been sucker-punched, and the sound reverberated through the hall like he'd just announced that not only was god dead, but he'd also been a hermaphroditic drag queen called Miss Demeanor.

Andrea Speed

#36. Not to be attached to something is to be aware of its absolute value. Everything you do should be based on such an awareness, and not on material or self-centered ideas of value.

Shunryu Suzuki

#37. The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent's car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn't let anything hurt me.
He wasn't singing, though,I mused.Shouldn't he be singing?

Kim Harrison

#38. To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

David McCullough

#39. I don't want to be a slave to nostalgia.

Cullen Bunn

#40. Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Alexis De Veaux

#41. wasn't right about this place.

C.J. Lewis