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Quotes About Speed

A new force in pro football, Taylor demanded not just a tactical response but an explanation. Many people pointed to his unusual combination of size and speed. As one of the Redskins' linemen put it, "No human being should be six four, two forty-five, and run a four-five forty.
~ Michael Lewis
Brad's desk to the BATS exchange in Weehawken, was about 2 milliseconds, and the slowest, from Brad's desk to Carteret, was around 4 milliseconds. In practice, the times could vary much more than that, depending on network traffic, static, and glitches in the pieces of equipment between any two points. It took 100 milliseconds to blink your eyes; it was hard to believe that a fraction of the blink of an eye could have such vast market consequences.
~ Michael Lewis
The simple reason Goldman wasn't making much of the big money now being made in the stock market was that the stock market had become a war of robots, and Goldman's robots were slow.
~ Michael Lewis
The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that a nanosecond had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all. What had once been the world's most public, most democratic, financial market had become, in spirit, something more like a private viewing of a stolen work of art.
~ Michael Lewis
The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.
~ Michael Lewis
maybe it was just the speed of his car. All he had to do is gun some machine into its highest gear to rediscover the sunny side of life.
~ Michael Lewis
I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
I seem to have forgotten as much as I've remembered. It's as if time itself has taken its time during my childhood, but once I got off that bus in Sydney it picked up speed, and from then on it was a roller coaster of a ride, and a bumpy one too, that brought me from then to now, leaving me with only fleeting moments of clarity, the highs and the lows, with so much in between, but lost to me for ever.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Time gathers speed as we get older. Life flashes by all too fast, and is over all too soon.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Aliganaya - 'the embrace during an intoxicated walk' or 'sudden arousal while driving over speed bumps
~ Michael Ondaatje
I am the fastest singer in our industry.
~ Kumar Sanu
I try to look up as quickly as possible, try to read the situation, but football is so quick, it's just a split-second, and then you decide.
~ Kevin De Bruyne
When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.
~ Kenny Leon
I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.
~ Claude Nicollier
It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.
~ Bryan Clay
Orbs are little bundles of positive energy and they think they can move between 500 and 1,000 miles per hour. They look like little round planets, but they come in all shapes and sizes. Conventional photography can't pick them up, but digital cameras can.
~ Noel Edmonds
I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.
~ John John Florence
As a street skater, I am always on the move and always looking for convenient ways to refuel.
~ Nyjah Huston
I've been on skates since age 5.
~ Eddy Alvarez
When we get off the line in skating we kind of look like little ducks running.
~ Eddy Alvarez
My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.
~ Bode Miller
I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.
~ Picabo Street
I ski fast for me, first and foremost, and I ski fast for my family, and it's always the love that gets me to the podium.
~ Julia Mancuso