Surface Wind Speed

Famous quotes containing the words surface, wind and/or speed:

    Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
    A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    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 (b. 1949)