Terminal Velocity Quotes

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Testing a parachute drop of a heavy object is not simple.

One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

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.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?