Altimeters Altitude Quotes & Sayings

An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of 102,800 feet, the figure that we later agree upon as the more reliable. It is 7 o'clock in the morning, and I have reached float altitude ... Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude. — Joseph Kittinger

Though plucking artichoke leaves doesn't mend all cracked spirits as firmly as pea shelling, it has its own curative power. There is a Dutch saying: "Bitter in the mouth cures the heart." If you happen to have a friend shaken by heartache, hand over a bag of raw artichokes. Once she has relieved them of their leaves, encourage one brave bite. Between the meditative peeling and the bitter taste, she should be completely healed. If there are no artichokes around, raw dandelion greens are a good substitute. — Tamar Adler

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means. — Roy Baumeister

Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many. — Elizabeth May

Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy. — George Osborne

The beauty of the flute was in its simplicity, in its resemblance to the human voice. It always sounded clear. It sounded alone. The piano, on the other hand, was a network of parts - a ship, with its strings like rigging, its case a hull, its lifted lid a sail. Kestrel always thought that the piano didn't sound like a single instrument but a twinned one, with its low and high halves merging together or pulling apart. — Marie Rutkoski

The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs. — Steven Magee

The only way to sustain this world economy is by changing its definition. — Toba Beta

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. — Stanley Baldwin

I'm very happy to come back. I've always had success here and the public is fantastic. I love you, Montreal. — Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself. — Ralph Cudworth

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious. — Albert Einstein

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it? — Terry Moore

On the other hand are the ungodly who want to have a full and secure belly. If anyone talks to them about faith and patience, they mock and despise Him and say, Can this fool tell us what is good? Yes, you be patient until a roast chicken flies into your mouth. Trust in that and you will starve! — Martin Luther

A funny thing happened post-diagnosis. They put him on drugs, things went up and down, but he lived. He lived. It was like a waiting room where they kept not calling your name. — Garth Risk Hallberg