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Quotes About Speed

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.
~ Carlos Castaneda
I said, why can't the world all convert to using Macs? Everything takes longer and is harder on a PC.
~ Carly Phillips
Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.
~ Carol S. Dweck
I'm as broadminded as the next person, I hope, but at my age thirty miles an hour and actresses all in one day is rather too much of a good thing.
~ Carola Dunn
He snorts more cocaine. I could pull over and roll him out the door but he's on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in.
~ Caroline Kepnes
I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.
~ Carrie Jones
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
~ Carroll Shelby
I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines.
~ George Grossmith
I feel it is just within the bounds of possibility that the wheels of your life don't travel so quickly round as those of the humble writer of these lines
~ George Grossmith
Thats what you young chaps have to remember. When u run, RUN! Full speed. Don't dither or dally even for an instant. let terror have his way, for he's the best friend you;ve got
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
~ George Monbiot
In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy.
~ George Monbiot
Sail far. Sail fast.
~ George R.R. Martin
racing down the kingsroad, as if to outrun his doubts.
~ George R.R. Martin
Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.
~ George R.R. Martin
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
~ George Smith Patton (Jr.)
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
~ Dan Chopin
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
~ Matthew Arnold
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.
~ James Thurber
The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
~ Charles F. Kettering
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
~ Bernard Malamud
Citius, altius, fortius. (Swifter, higher, stronger.)
~ Motto of the Olympic Games
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
~ Bible
Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.
~ Bible