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Quotes About Speed

This is Holy Wood. To pass the time quickly, you just film the clock hands moving fast...
~ Terry Pratchett
The period of time it takes a pictsie to go from normal to mad fighting mood is so tiny it can't be measured on the smallest clock.
~ Terry Pratchett
Camels gallop by throwing their feet as far away from them as possible and then running to keep up.
~ Terry Pratchett
It wasn't real conservatism at all, of course, but an unthought longing for the dear old days when one could predict what would be there tomorrow, if not next week. Unable to get the big picture, they welcomed the conveniences, the miniaturization of this and the speed of that, and then they were angrily confused when their support of these things changed their world.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.
~ Joey Chestnut
Baseball moved too slow for me. I wanted to be out running and jumping.
~ Jason Sehorn
I think I have just as much talent as anybody when it comes to the 100 or 200.
~ Christian Coleman
Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.
~ Jason Statham
You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.
~ Rickey Henderson
In the car it is really good to have a killer instinct where you need to be aggressive.
~ Charles Leclerc
The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.
~ Michael Giles
Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.
~ G-Dragon
I do kung fu. I box. I ride horses. I like to race cars in a crazy way.
~ Luke Goss
Whitaker is much better. De La Hoya hits hard, and he's fast, and he comes in with a lot of force. But he has to learn how to fight, and Whitaker is very difficult.
~ Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.
What do you know about racing?" Ronnie asked, curious. He looked fascinated, like a scientist confronted by a strange new species: dontgivadamnus from the phylum couldntcareless .
~ Karen Chance
Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I ran faster than a demon from Hell breaking out with Cerberus snapping at its heels.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Immediacy is efficiency.
~ Karen Marie Moning
INERTIA: Unless an object is acted on by friction from an outside force, it will spiral through space, in the same direction at the same speed - indefinitely!
~ Karen Russell
När hjulet kom, gick allting på tok för fort för oss.
~ Karin Fossum
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
~ Karl Kraus
Ein hastiger Renner ist nicht immer das schnellste Pferd.
~ Karl May
Adrenaline is my drug of choice.
~ Kate Angell
The great advantage of digital media is that it can be stored, retrieved and massaged by a computer—at lightning speed and with unerring accuracy.
~ G. Pascal Zachary