Quotes About Speed

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.

Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.

I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He's another fighter I would like to base myself on because he's got incredible fast hands and feet. He's flashy but, man, is he good.

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

I am still the fastest man on earth.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

I took to my heels as fast as I could.

I'm doing 85 outside the kingdom of heaven

One can only see clearly When one is going slowly Quick motion creates a life-blur.

It's as if the future is coming to us faster than we are heading to it. I think it was the author William Gibson who suggested that global stocks of cognitive dissonance are currently so high they threaten to make the traditional idea of science fiction redundant. And once you reach my age, you tend to find that the individual days become really long, but the years get shorter, which only distorts your temporal perspective still further.

Notice in that same prophecy, the angel told Daniel that, besides a great increase in knowledge, "many shall run to and fro" (Daniel 12:4). This second sign, a tremendous increase in the distance and speed of travel, would also occur in the same context, that being the end times. God was revealing that, once people begin to run to and fro, both farther and faster, the final years before Christ returns to set up His Millennial Kingdom will finally be upon us.

faster not because of how powerfully they stroke but because of how slippery they make their bodies.

So goal one for anyone who wants to swim better and faster is a longer stroke. This can happen in two ways: (1) more push—using your hands and feet to thrust your body farther through the water by making each stroke as powerful as possible; and (2) less drag—shaping your body so it's more friction-free, allowing it to travel farther with the power each of your strokes is already producing.