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Description: They mean something only with respect to arbitrarily chosen, artificial frames of reference. If, someday, you are buckled into your spaceship, and you see from the side window, say, a space station whizz by at constant speed, there is no way to know which of you is really moving.

Karl Pilkington

I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.

British Actor

Pico Iyer

Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Indian Writer

Fritz Kreisler

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

Austrian Composer

Nigel Mansell

In our day, the driver probably had more input into the car. We didn't have power steering or fully automated gearboxes. We didn't have all the technical whizzes that are on the car now, so we actually controlled the car far more than the drivers today.

British Athlete

Paula Kelly

With a camera right in my face, my movements would have to be more subtle; stage techniques would have to be left behind and that would be hard. So many things kept whizzing through my mind, yet I never doubted once that I could do it.

Alison Gopnik

If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

American Psychologist

Peter Ackroyd

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

British Author

Leslie Charteris

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

British Writer

Jaclyn Smith

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

American Actress

Octavia Spencer

When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.

Used informally to compliment someone who is exceptionally skilled.

Informal Praise

Often used to refer to someone's skill in a specific area, not general intelligence.

Specific Skill

Describes very rapid movement, usually accompanied by a sound likened to 'whizz'.

Fast Movement

Implies something happens suddenly and is over quickly, emphasizing surprise or quick reflexes.

Sudden Occurrence

Refers to the sound itself, used to set a vivid scene in storytelling.

Descriptive Sound

Conveys a sense of quick action or reflex, often used in action scenes.

Immediacy

Indicates someone is performing tasks with speed and efficiency.

Efficiency

Sometimes used to show someone is rushing, possibly due to being impatient or in a hurry.

Expressing Impatience

Suggests operating an appliance or tool at high speed.

Quick Operate

Implies control over the speed at which something moves or operates.

Controlled Speed

 They mean something only with respect to arbitrarily chosen, artificial frames of reference. If, someday, you are buckled into your spaceship, and you see from the side window, say, a space station whizz by at constant speed, there is no way to know which of you is really moving.

How fast are you moving...

 okay, maybe not our hair, but you see where I'm going. The result, of course, is that we get stressed. You know, the mind whizzes away like a washing machine going round and round, lots of difficult, confusing emotions, and we don't really know how to deal with that.

All it takes is 10...

 they kept sending these waves at the ice and the ice was spinning around the seal clinging on and then being flipped off it was so dramatic i mean they were whizzing around and turning around and teaming up again and then diving down and swimming towards the ice

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 Batman on camera today well done betters that was his thumb whizzing past like a bat swing please do talk to us using the hashtag spy live on Twitter otherwise a chat stream on YouTube we'd love to have any questions or comments that you might have on this

Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...

 tweens to centenarians and presented them with all sorts of questions and rating skills unsurprisingly regardless of age he found that everyone felt that the last few weeks and months had whizzed by in a flash however longer intervals of time such as

What does your time feel...

 new freedom I'd seen my life slip away and become restricted it was like having an enormous new toy I could whizz around and feel the wind in my face again just being out on the streets was exhilarating but even though I had this

Deep sea diving ... in a...

 pictures as it whizzed by we discovered tonight in New World it's the largest asteroid ever seen by human and is really really exciting it's so cool though it has been observed before by ground-based telescopes astronomers and

"New World" Asteroid...

 If it's hit, don't cross the street." Made perfect sense. But by the third cane that went whizzing across the road -- they realized that they needed to put their resources together, and they raised funds

Ramona Pierson: An...

 the street made perfect sense but by the third cane that went whizzing across the road they realized that they needed to put the resources together and they raised funds

An unexpected place of...

 These clumps, or curds, became the building blocks of cheese, which would eventually be aged, pressed, ripened, and whizzed into a diverse cornucopia of dairy delights.

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