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Quotes About Speed

Eremon liked to say that hooves can make speed, while hands can make music.
~ T. A. Barron
The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.
~ T.J. Stiles
I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed-in on Google Earth really fast.
~ Tags: giving
This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine.
~ Tana French
faster," Trey says, over his shoulder. "Don't give it a chance to get holda you." "This is as fast as I go. Not all of us are built like jackrabbits." "Moose, more like." "You remember what I told you about manners?" Cal demands. Trey snorts and keeps moving. They pass between gorse bushes, around old turf-cutting scars, under a sheer cliffside where tufts of
~ Tana French
Handbrake found the drive to Jaipur that morning particularly frustrating. The new tarmac-surfaced toll road, which was part of India's proliferating highway system, had four lanes running in both directions, and although it presented all manner of hazards, including the occasional herd of goats, a few overturned trucks and the odd gaping pothole, it held out an irresistible invitation to speed. Indeed, many of the other cars travelled as fast as 100 miles
~ Tarquin Hall
It is not that the turret clocks are running faster. What is happening is that our brains are running slower.
~ Ted Chiang
If Thoreau were alive today he would have full confirmation of his fears. Instant information is instantly obsolete. Only the most banal ideas can successfully cross great distances at the speed of light. And anything that travels very far very fast is scarcely worth transporting, especially the tourist.
~ Ted Simon
Instant information is instantly obsolete. Only the most banal ideas can successfully cross great distances at the speed of light. And anything that travels very far very fast is scarcely worth transporting, especially the tourist.
~ Ted Simon
I have watched many Premier League games and they look very different to the Spanish game, particularly much faster.
~ Pedro
My dad had a candy-apple red sparkle drag boat with a giant hemi engine in it that he raced professionally. The sound of that engine was the most incredible sound ever.
~ Brian Reitzell
The Spa-Francorchamps circuit has a special place in my heart.
~ Charles Leclerc
Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.
~ Ahmed Zewail
We're a fast-moving, needy species.
~ Theophilus London
It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.
~ Christian Horner
Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.
~ Lawrence Summers
The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
~ Piyush Goyal
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
~ John P. Kotter
Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.
~ Guy Martin
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
~ St. Jerome
Long runs improve your endurance but shorter intervals improve your speed. They are mutually beneficial for a distance runner. If you do 5k runs it will help your marathon.
~ Eliud Kipchoge
I have a speed, and I have to use it when I play against someone who gives you the space.
~ Mohamed Salah
I have one speed, I have one gear: go!
~ Charlie Sheen
Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.
~ Chuck Schuldiner