Quotes About Speed

I'm always in awe at how fast television is and how quickly you're called upon to be 100 percent invested in a character with the lines.

I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

Italian work is excellent but it takes them six months to do what we do in a week.

Back in 1997, I got to race a Ferrari at the famous Monza circuit in Italy - a dream come true.

The train is where you can have the best party, especially the bullet train in Japan.

When your flying in a jet aircraft, everything goes much faster.

I wouldn't know who Michael Johnson was if he didn't run fast times.

When I joined Formula One, I knew that what I found is that the cars are so much faster, and it took me a little while to understand where to always put the car.

A fair estimate is that Bobby played one thousand games a year between the ages of nine and eleven, and twelve thousand a year from the ages of eleven to thirteen, most of them speed games.

There are runners and there are runners… and then there's Gale Sayers."

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

The sooner, the better!

That was close!" Frank gasped. The car had been traveling at such high speed that the boys had been unable to get the license number or a glimpse of the driver's features. But they had noted that he was hatless and had a shock of red hair.

Along the wide straight road he pushed the car well over eighty miles an hour and kept the tachometre needle flickering just below the start of the red band.

Four thousand A.U. plus is a long trip-and that's as the crow flies. Or, actually, as the photon fires, because of course there aren't a lot of crows in near-interstellar space.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide — these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

Orphans have to run well. A slow orphan ends up in jail.

They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators. I decided not to use that one on Megan.

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

You don't need to use your hand to Push," Gemmel grumbled at him. "Wastes time.

Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace," Lundstr

The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new forces must at any cost be brought under control. Prosperity never before imagined, power never yet wielded by man, speed never reached by anything but a meteor, had made the world irritable, nervous, querulous, unreasonable and afraid.

After all, the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages;