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Quotes About Speed

My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks." The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick.
~ James Clavell
I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.
~ James Frey
Other people, too, worried about this new gap between the speeds of travel and messaging. An important London banker told Babbage he disapproved: "It will enable our clerks to plunder us, and then be off to Liverpool on their way to America at the rate of twenty miles an hour." Babbage could only express the hope that science might yet find a remedy for the problem it had created.
~ James Gleick
My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.
~ Brian Tee
Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable.
~ Justin Gatlin
People underestimate my speed. I'm pretty fast.
~ Trey Burke
I don't know if it's underrated or not but I have confidence in my speed and my quickness around the court.
~ Jack Sock
There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.
~ David Rose
We can prevent unfair advantage, and we can avoid the destabilizing effect that high frequency trading can have.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.
~ Erik Voorhees
I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.
~ Compton Gage
Faster is fatal, slower is safe.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
The elephant is the largest, but not the fiercest. The giraffe is the tallest, but not the strongest. The cheetah is the fastest, but not the wisest. The ant is the smallest, but not the gentlest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.
~ Will Durst
I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.
~ Charles Leclerc
What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
~ Rajiv Ouseph
Hockey is the original extreme sport.
~ Tom Ward
F1 has to be the pinnacle of motor sport in terms of technology and performance.
~ Mattia Binotto
IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.
~ Scott Dixon
'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
~ Carl Crawford
Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.
~ Franz von Holzhausen
What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.
~ Alfie Allen