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Quotes About Speed

I have a lot of tailors. If I want something made in 12 hours, it will be made in 12 hours.
~ WizKid
I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
~ Adam Peaty
We work as a team, and that is a huge part of why we have been successful; we run fast as a team.
~ Aneel Bhusri
I'm fast and I move well so I know how to come in at weird angles and keep my feet under me. I'm looking for that power shot and I might not be able to fire off anything after it if my feet aren't under me. Footwork is a huge part of my game.
~ Cub Swanson
A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
~ Salman Khan
1.200 metros por segundo recorre una bala, y el ruido del disparo suena a odio.
~ Gloria Fuertes
He raced down the line and dove into first base just ahead of the tag.
~ Gordon Korman
Dan showed it no mercy. He pushed the throttle as far as it would
~ Gordon Korman
They sped along the conduits reserved for the subtle messages of subatomic particles, space-time's hidden circuitry.
~ Greg Bear
There's no time to waste, Kai said. He did a backflip off the tower and ran off. What is it with that guy? Jay asked. Always in a rush!
~ Greg Farshtey
darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spinning dive, hurtling earthward at over five hundred miles per hour. In the cabin, people slammed into each other in the terror of flashblindness. General Steyn screamed in pain. Hauer half-fell past Burton into the cockpit. "Straighten up!" he screamed.
~ Greg Iles
In space, distance was time, and time was distance.
~ Greg Keyes
Doppler effect.
~ Greg Keyes
If humans were good at anything, he thought, it was sure as hell good old running.
~ Gregory Benford
Sometimes we'd be sitting down watching TV and my dad would tell me and my brother to run upstairs and grab him something. He would time us. Every time. It was like the world record was on the line. My brother and I both wanted that world record, so we'd run upstairs as fast as we could to see who could get back to my dad first.
~ Jim Harbaugh
I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. And I don't have the patience to grow the longest fingernails in the world. Why not be the fastest woman on four wheels? It makes complete sense.
~ Jessi Combs
I was trying to break world records in cycling.
~ Chris Hoy
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.
~ Roger Ebert
The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.
~ Marc Laidlaw
A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
~ Finn Wittrock
I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
~ Clara Hughes
'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
~ Carl Honore
We need to make sure F1 stays the quickest category of all, and GP2 is not that far away, so that's a little bit worrying.
~ Valtteri Bottas