Quotes About Speed

I felt like I was walking on an airport's rubber conveyor belt.

Once you've used your brain flat-out, you can't go into the SLOW mode. You can't drive an Infinite J-3B and then get downgraded to an Daewoo. Brains don't workd that way.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

And the Minister strode rapidly away.

Winning is you just have to be quick, you snooze you lose

At the name of Doctor Sangrado, hurrying on his cloak and hat: 'For mercy's sake,' cried the notary, 'let us set off with all possible speed; for this doctor dispatches business so fast, that our fraternity cannot keep pace with him. That fellow spoils half my jobs.

So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

Khouri had never really given much thought to the slowness of light. There was nothing in the universe that moved faster . . . but, as she now saw, it was glacial compared to the speed that would be needed to keep their love alive.

In less than twelve hours, Purslane's ship would be travelling so close to the speed of light that the fastest ship ever built would still need a hundred thousand years to catch up with her.

I, personally, like to get dressed and then do my makeup and hair in about five minutes.

I'm an adrenaline junkie but also a petrol head.

It's that mindset we have where we think we are indestructible. I know at least I went through that phase, where everything was excessive! Like if I drove a fast car I'd just have to take it to 130 miles per hour or more, you know!

I think part of the beauty of being a pop phenomenon is that you're going 1,000 miles per hour, and it's all happening - and that's also the hard part about it.

In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

I grew up in a family of fighter pilots, and I have a real kindred spirit to that kind of fast-moving aggression and momentum.

On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.

I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.