The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
Barney Oliver
LightEnergyShipSpeedFlightMove
That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.
David Bowie
LifeGodMeHellShortSpeed
The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.
Lord Mountbatten
SpeedSuccessfulAttackPrimary
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
Charles Kuralt
LightSpeedTelevisionEverything
I never exceed the posted speed limit.
Jason Priestley
SpeedNeverLimitSpeed LimitExceed
I speed up past mirrors.
Bill Nighy
PastSpeedMirrorsUp
It's often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles, wicked speed, and fighter-plane acrobatics, doves are more difficult to take down.
Jonathan Miles
PracticeMeUpside DownDuckSpeed
I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.
Alex Morgan
LoveStrengthBasketballGameSpeed
I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.
Don Lemon
RespectGreatPeopleThinkSpeed
From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom.
Alastair Reynolds
SpaceLawDeepSpeedAheadSchedule
I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
Dorothy Hamill
PowerThinkSpeedTelevisionSkating
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
Virgil Goode
EndSpeedImportantWillOilUs
There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.
Chili Davis
WaitSpeedYouAheadTryHard
The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.
Paul A. Volcker
CommunicationMovingWorldSpeed
One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
Clare Short
QualityBalanceSpeedStrikeRight
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
Paul Rand
AestheticSpeedMeaningfulContent
I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.
Brittany Bowe
LiveTeamNameSpeedSugarShe
The trade-off between speed and image quality is a key constraint of first-person action games, and the job of developing a workable engine involves constantly optimizing both elements. Gamers dream of the day they'll be able to haul their arsenals through three-dimensional environments of photographic clarity, playing 'Myst' with a meat ax.
Marc Laidlaw
QualityDayJobActionKeySpeed
There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.
Arlen Specter
LifeGovernmentPeopleSpeedHigh
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
CharacterGreatReflectionSpeed
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
Arthur Lydiard
GoodThinkingSpeedYouEndurance
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter
AmericaSpeedCountryKnowGoing
When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse.
William Henry Bragg
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I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.
Keanu Reeves
WaterSpeedOutUpComeJust
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