Quotes About Speed

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

To pilot a racehorse is to ride a half-ton catapult. It is without question one of the most formidable feats in sport.

Syllabus for Advanced Creative Writing Suggested Reading The Speed Queen, Stewart O'Nan Zuckerman Unbound, Philip Roth Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

the Indians simply outran them. "They made such enormous strides that with all our running and jumping we could not overtake them," Pigafetta noted.

He worked quickly—too quickly, as he would later discover to his horror

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.

In Joey's neighborhood the blocks were short and there were stop signs on every corner. It was hard to get going more than fifteen miles an hour, and on those lazy streets Joey's refurbished 1973 El Dorado convertible got about eight blocks to the gallon.

A horse that kicks can kill anyone near its hind legs. A stable hand, a groom, a coachman, or a care-less owner will risk their lives if struck by the animal's lightning-fast speed and power

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Add wings to thy speed, sweet evening; and thou, moon, I charge thee, shroud thy beams at the moment when my Pleyel whispers love. I would not for the world, that the burning blushes, and the mounting raptures of that moment, should be visible.

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way.

He executed his commission with great promptitude and dispatch, only calling at one public-house for half a minute, and even that might be said to be in his way, for he went in at one door and came out at the other[.]

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

Radio travels 186,000 miles a second, the same speed as light, or around the world about eight times a second, so radio is making the world smaller and better acquainted. Last month President Coolidge sat in his study and talked to millions of Americans by radio, and nothing is as intimate of personality as the voice.

...he certainly made those long legs go! Hoppity-skip he went, hoppity-skip, down the street, and around the corner...

The BFG changed into his famous top gear and all at once he began to fly forward as though there were springs in his legs and rockets in his toes. He went skimming over the earth like some magical hop-skip-and-jumper with his feet hardly ever touching the ground.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed in on Google Earth really fast.

The Morro Castle traveled 3.1 miles head on into the storm at a speed of 18.8 knots for over ten minutes. In that time, the wind, gusting at over 20 knots, had acted as a giant bellows, fanning and speeding the flames the length of the ship.

Einstein was wrong! I'M the speed of light CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

How can you move faster than possible," the other man asked, "fight longer than possible, if not from the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death. The will to survive.

It was a rigorous result in information theory that once you could learn in a sufficiently flexible manner – something humanity had achieved in the Bronze Age – the only limits you faced were speed and storage; any other structural changes were just a matter of style.