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Quotes About Speed

Now, if you run away, all you need to be is just faster than me, not faster than the animal.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
She slammed down on the accelerator and headed north at eighty-five, dodging wreckage like a skier running a slalom.
~ Nathan Archer
a boat towing a whale could go no faster than one mile per hour. It
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.
~ Neal Shusterman
In the end, blame didn't shine on an individual. It was a floodlight cast on all of us. And all because we longed for healing and happiness- as if happiness is a state of being. But it's not. Happiness is a vector. It's movement. Like my own momentum across the pool, joy can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.
~ Neal Shusterman
And all because we longed for healing and happiness—as if happiness is a state of being. But it's not. Happiness is a vector. It's movement. Like my own momentum across the pool, joy can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.
~ Neal Shusterman
Hayden passes his hand back and forth over the flame. He doesn't move slowly enough to burn himself, but he does move slowly enough to feel the heat. Hayden notices Connor watching him. "It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow," Hayden says. "You can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough." "Are you a pyro?" Connor asks. "You're confusing boredom with obsession.
~ Neal Shusterman
When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
~ Neal Stephenson
She drove with the throttle to the floor and took the curves sliding and screeching and without expression. That was class. If she loved like she drove it was going to be a hell of a night.
~ Charles Bukowski
Accelerating to speeds faster than light was, of course, impossible. General relativity had made that clear enough back in the twentieth century. However, since then a number of ways of circumventing the speed limit had turned up; by now, there were at least six different known methods of moving mass or information from A to B without going through c.
~ Charles Stross
The universe is a brightly colored blur of fast-moving shapes augmented by deafening noises.
~ Charles Stross
when you're sentenced to drive a Smart car on a road where everything else has a speed best described by its mach number, you tend to pay attention.
~ Charles Stross
She could ace the North Circular in a jacked Toyota Tercel faster than Sabine Schmitz could lap the Nürburgring in a Transit van, and the only times the plod had got on her tail she'd left them, well, plodding.
~ Charles Stross
I'm going flat out at maybe a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour on the autobahn while some joker is shooting at me from behind with a cannon that fires Porsches and Mercedes.
~ Charles Stross
when it isn't spending half its energy scanning for viruses or painting a pretty drop-shadow under the mouse pointer it runs like greased whippet shit.
~ Charles Stross
Hitting in its simplest form is seeing the ball, adjusting to the location and speed, and hitting the ball. That sounds simple but unless you have set your body in a proper position to maximize its strengths you will fail time after time.
~ Charley Lau
Time speeds up as it goes by. Someone explained to me that there is a mathematical reason for this: as you age, each year becomes a smaller percentage of the life you have already lived.
~ Chelsea Handler
I speak very quickly, even for an elected public servant. So if I fast-talk you, I'm not trying to mislead you.
~ Jesse White
I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
~ Tom Brady
Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the land; I'm the fastest man in mixed martial arts.
~ Demetrious Johnson
In football, strength can only succeed when mixed with agility, balance, speed and intelligence about what's going on around you. But, without strength, I wouldn't be here.
~ Mike Webster
You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.
~ Jack Dangermond
I've never really had time to think about my thoughts. I've always had people around, my mobile phone... everything was so fast-paced.
~ Bernard Tomic
When you are a race driver you see things in the race driver mode.
~ Robert Kubica