Surface Wind Speed

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

    “It was a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “O love, my love! if I no more should see
    Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
    Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,—
    How then should sound upon Life’s darkening slope
    The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
    The wind of Death’s imperishable wing?”
    —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

    “No speed of wind or water rushing by
    But you have speed far greater.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)