Forgotten Quote by Leon Wieseltier

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

— Lionel Shriver

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of…

— Frank Iero

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the…

— Swami Vivekananda

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…

— Douglas Adams

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

— Andrew Ng

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks…

— Corey Ford

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more…

— Douglas Adams

“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly…

— Paul Murray

That's why it's so important to have that gap between your fastball and off-speed pitches: then, when you effectively locate your fastball, it plays…

— Jake Arrieta

Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to…

— Thomas Young

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington