Quotes About Speed

You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.

Skiing is ridiculous.

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I would say people are most going to remember me for my skill on the racetrack, first and foremost.

In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

I was always fast for my size and skill set.

What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box.

I would love to take a road trip across Italy in an Aston Martin S Coupe.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world.

Ramona was not interested in tools or thinking things over and figuring things out. She was interested in results. Fast.

In essence what relativity says is that space and time are not absolute but relative both to the observer and the thing being observed, and the faster one moves the more pronounced these effects will become. We can never accelerate ourselves to the speed of light, and the harder we try(the faster we go) the more distorted we become, relative to an outside observer.

Travelling faster than a bullet, an incoming meteor would be moving much too swiftly to be seen, much less to provoke alarm. (Credit

Viennese physicist Ernst Mach, for whom is named the speed of sound

the idea of action at a distance—that one particle could instantaneously influence another trillions of miles away—was a stark violation of the special theory of relativity. This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could. (No one, incidentally, has ever explained how the particles achieve this feat.

The red shift gives the speed at which galaxies are retiring, but doesn't tell us how far away they are to begin with.

Working quickly was the trick of it. When Samuel Pepys underwent a lithotomy—the removal of a kidney stone—in 1658, the surgeon took just fifty seconds to get in and find and extract a stone about the size of a tennis ball. (That is, a seventeenth-century tennis ball, which was rather smaller than a modern one, but still a sphere of considerable dimension.)

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

In a rush this weekday morning, I tap the horn as I speed past the cemetery where my parents are buried side by side beneath a slab of smooth granite. Then, all day, I think of him rising up to give me that look of knowing disapproval while my mother calmly tells him to lie back down.

We must always look at things from the point of view of eternity, the college theologians used to insist, from which, I imagine, we would all appear to have speed lines trailing behind us as we rush along the road of the world, as we rush down the long tunnel of time- the biker, of course, drunk on the wind, but also the man reading by a fire...