Richard Branson Quotes

Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

The winds are out of breath.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

Flying was great. You have to think fast. You have to develop intuition about the physics of air moving quickly over a surface.

I was lucky enough to fly in Concorde, and you get up to 65,000 feet, and I could see the curvature of the Earth.

Bigger girls go faster in the wind; lighter girls go better in the calm. Around 57kg is the ideal weight for women in my windsurfing class.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

Is the sky falling? No. It's maybe drooping a bit.

The pink ball is a bit different. I don't think it moves as much through the air.

Ventilation is needed to ensure we get air disbursed throughout the Station. Air stagnates without flow, so it is essential to have good ventilation so one doesn't end up in a bubble of CO2 by accident and then not be able to breathe.

My sky diving experience was spectacular, to say the least. The number of safety measures and repeated cross checks make it safer. The team did not let us jump alone, as individuals are not expected to have the expertise to do so safely on their own.

In Finland and the U.K. you can't predict the weather.

The biggest problem for badminton is wind direction and lighting. If those problems are not solved, it seriously impacts players' performances on the court. If a high-level player's performance is affected by these factors, they suffer setbacks and cannot be fully satisfied on the court.

Wind, weather, everything comes into play when you're in the kicking game - how far the ball is going to traveling in the air, where it's going to travel with the wind.

Immediately surrounding the tranquil eye is the most violent part of the hurricane: the eye wall. The most intense wind speeds at the surface are found there.

In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's crisp but hard, a side-raking light that can be revealing but doesn't have the softness that maritime air has.