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Quotes About Speed

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.
~ Sam Mussabini
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
~ Jesse Owens
Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.
~ Paul Gallico
When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.
~ Anne M. Mulcahy
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
~ Johan Cruijff
You're a dancer; don't strain, don't force it. Be one with the hurdle, let it happen, relax while running fast.
~ Renaldo Nehemiah
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
~ Thomas A. Edison
You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.
~ Jason Winer
I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
~ Paul Desmond
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
~ Brian May
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
~ Robert Brault
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
~ Tertullian
Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.
~ Mike Bond, The Last Savanna
He needs both patience and speed.
~ Paulo Coelho
Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.
~ Jimi Hendrix
To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.
~ Pepe Romero
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
~ Kinky Friedman
Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation.
~ Debasish Mridha
Speed is dangerous if your direction is wrong.
~ Debasish Mridha
Life is like a flowing river. Just like the speed of time, it will never come back.
~ Debasish Mridha
Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.
~ Kirby Wright
In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.
~ Kimi Raikkonen
... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again
~ Herbert H. Lehman