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Quotes About Speed

If you have lost a lot of time, then, increase your speed and make up for the time lost
~ Sunday Adelaja
He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
~ Jennifer Lane, Streamline
Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
~ Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night.
~ Anonymous
I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.
~ Ryan North
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
~ Orville Wright
Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.
~ Colin Chapman
I loved them like you love your hand or your liver, without thinking about it or even being able to see it. But my music made that fleshly love feel dull and dumb, deep, slow, and heavy as stone. Come, said the music, to joy and speed and secret endlessness, where everything tumbles together and attachments are not made of sad flesh.
~ Mary Gaitskill
Hurry! Go! Go!" Jack called to Morning
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs, and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!
~ Masashi Kishimoto
In about ten years, the genes of the AIDS virus change as much as human genes change in 10 million years. For bacteria, thirty minutes can be a lifetime. Human beings, whose generations are an eternal thirty years long, are evolutionary tortoises.
~ Matt Ridley
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
~ Matthew Arnold
I ran like a thing that runs.
~ Maureen Johnson
Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and told you all kinds of stats for that horse, how fast it was, how big it was, etc. Whoever had the better horse won both the cards. You repeated this until someone had all the cards. So, basically it was exactly like high school, except it only took three minutes. Which was really a bit more humane, if you thought about it.
~ Maureen Johnson
You want to play? Ellis yelled. All right, then! I played a lot of video games as a kid, bitches! There! Oliver yelled. That way! Toward Boulevard Périphérique. There! There! The car swerved abruptly to the right. Ginny heard Keith swear for a solid ten seconds.
~ Maureen Johnson
The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.
~ Ayn Rand
She drove fast, as a matter of habit, an even speed without a sense of haste.
~ Ayn Rand
He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.
~ Ayn Rand
She sat at the window of the train, her head thrown back, one leg stretched across to the empty seat before her. The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and dots of light slashed across the glass as luminous streaks, once in a while.
~ Ayn Rand
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
mouthwise, June was an AR-15. Instant reload, engineered to kill.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Fulfillement is a precipitation
~ Barthes, Roland