Quotes About Speed

The first commercial jetliner, the ill-fated British Comet (whose four deadly accidents were not caused by jet engines but by stress around square window frames that eventually led to catastrophic decompression), entered its brief service in 1952 at M 0.7, and the first successful and widely adopted jetliner, Boeing's 707, began its scheduled flights in October 1958 at M 0.83.

It looked like speed-dating for the dysfunctional.

To move faster, pulse faster.

How Fast Can Your Company Afford to Grow?" a Harvard Business Review article by Neil C. Churchill and John W. Mullins.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

se dio cuenta de que el paisaje del alma de una mujer podía cambiar con la misma velocidad que un mundo en guerra.

James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Messenger boys zipped by on delivery bikes

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.

You could get whiplash trying to watch time go by.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. "By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles," noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

Do you think she'll catch him before he gets to the hall?" "My mom's spent her whole life chasing me around," Clary said. "She moves fast.

drive like hell was chasing you.

Get a life, sonic boom

Dottridge Bros valued their 'solemnity' but boasted that they could have a coffin 'of the most artistic finish' ready for thirty shillings in seven minutes. And speed was of the essence. Embalming did not become commonplace until the 1920s, so funerals took place as soon as possible.

Run, Steven. Run fast and far.

As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

She certainly did not see Death stand on her tiptoes and blow a kiss after her, a kiss that rushed through all the frosted leaves of the autumnal forest but could not quite catch a child running as fast as she could. As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.