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Quotes About Speed

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
~ Walter Cronkite
To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.
~ Bernhard Goetz
My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
~ Burton Cummings
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
Watching some heavyweights like Mike Tyson, he inspired me to work with my speed because he beat people with power, but most of the time, he beat people with speed.
~ Francis Ngannou
Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.
~ Larry Holmes
On June 27, 1988, a 21-year-old Mike Tyson made in excess of 21 million dollars for 91 seconds of work. It took him just over 14 seconds to pull in more money than Michael Jordan, in his prime, made for an entire season of work that year.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
I've had a lot of people tell me I'm faster than Tyson.
~ Tommy Morrison
My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
~ Vik Muniz
I'm too fast, too sexy, and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.
~ David Haye
Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.
~ Logan Henderson
From apparently superluminal radio sources in deep space, to the neutrinos that were supposed to be arriving ahead of schedule at the Grand Sasso experiment in Italy, every apparent exception to Einstein's ultimate speed law has turned out to be a phantom.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'
~ Shervin Pishevar
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
~ Ryan Holmes
I think F1, ultimately, is man and machine at its absolute limit. It is modern day chariot racing.
~ Christian Horner
I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.
~ Matthew Fox
There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many people as possible. Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.
~ Marc Bolan
When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.
~ Mats Sundin
Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.
~ Michael J. Massimino
The pace is unbelievable in the Premier League.
~ Jan Vertonghen
Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.
~ Evan Thomas
War is just demographics in a hurry.
~ Gary Brecher, The War Nerd
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
~ Mario Andretti
Act quickly, think slowly.
~ Germaine Greer