Quotes About Speed

Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.

It's true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.

There is no such thing as a low risk lap in Monaco. It doesn't exist if you want to be fast, because you have to be on the limit.

Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.

Computers double their performance every month.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

Montreal is different from Monaco, as there are some long straights and big braking moments.

I love driving the sled more than anything.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

My first car was a motorcycle.

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.

I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!

A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt.

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

I always liked motorcycles and cars when I was a kid.

I love motorcycles and riding bikes.

Trump made sure both the media and his opponents reacted on his terms. He wasn't always perfectly prepared, but his preference for speed over perfection ensured that opponents were always scrambling to figure out a response. •

Zapped while zipping.

I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.

There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the bolts just a little more. Their ship was no longer a cripple, and pride broke out in the crew like a rainbow after a summer shower.

Perhaps Pre's driving was affected enough that he simply misjudged the curve and his approach speed. Perhaps, as one policeman speculated, he was reaching for a cassette tape and took his eyes off the road. Perhaps he failed to make the turn for an altogether different reason. The result is the same.

If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out.

Racing at four and a half times the speed of any other conveyance, Tom Thumb was both a marvel and a mystery. The train's owners and occupants first questioned whether the human body could endure such speed. Many of the passengers on Tom Thumb's first run were human guinea pigs who brought along paper and pencil to test whether cogent thought was possible at such speed.47