Going Out On A Limb
Skydiver breaks sound barrier
On October 14, 2012, 43 year old Austrian Felix Baumgartner jumped from an ultra-thin helium balloon at an altitude of 128,100 feet above the Earth, landing 10 minutes later in a New Mexico desert. He shattered the sound barrier while making the highest jump ever, reaching a speed of Mach 1.24 (or 1,342 km/h).
One gigantic fall for mankind
First person to reach supersonic speed without travelling in a jet or a spacecraft
QuotaBillsUnsafe at any speed. - Ralph Nader
Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! - David Farragut
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs
Specimen: An Italo-American astronaut - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Highway: The space between billboards - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Goose Bumps: To keep geese from speeding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. - Homer
Speed is not a priority, just enjoy your hike. - Barry Putra
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing. - Jean Cocteau
It is the empty space which makes the room useful. - Lao-tzu
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump. - Will Durst
My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside. - Roseanne Barr
When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed. - Quincy Jones
Cavity: Empty space ready to be stuffed with dentist's bills. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. - Dan Quayle
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. - Larry Niven
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein
Oh my God! Space aliens! Don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them! - Homer Simpson
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. - Steven Wright
Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. - Lady Gaga
A great athlete does not come from muscle, speed, and skill, but from the mind first. - Dan E. Welker
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. - Elias Canetti
Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. - Zig Ziglar
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
The way you can understand all of the social media is as the creation of a new kind of public space. - Danah Boyd
I took a speed reading course and read "War and Peace" in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. - Woody Allen
The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. - Jason Love
Speed Limit: The velocity one must exceed by approximately 10 MPH on a major highway or risk being run off the road - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
We're all trying to keep up in this stupid race. But that won't be much fun when we're floating in space. - John Symeou
At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push. - Summer Sanders
Oh my. Space travel sounds rather perilous. I can assure you they will never get me on one of those dreadful Star Ships. - C-3PO
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe. - Mae Jemison
In most homes, the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. - Evan Esar
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. - John Glenn
The space in a needle's eye is sufficient for two friends, but the whole world is scarcely big enough to hold two enemies. - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. - Eliud Kipchoge
When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl