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Quotes About Speed

Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.
~ Suzy Menkes
I'm not interested in how long I can hold out, but in how fast I can reach the finishing line.
~ Emil Zatopek
In games, you notice there's more sprints than in Bundesliga. It takes a while to get used to.
~ Granit Xhaka
Here's why people don't live on oats and water: if you're cash poor, you're likely also time poor, and speed is of the essence when your job starts at the same time as your children's day at school.
~ Dawn Foster
I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.
~ Dhanush
I love driving. I've been obsessed with driving something since I was a kid.
~ Hunter Hayes
I could read and walk four miles an hour.
~ Orison Swett Marden
And so everything is supposed to hang on the speed of light but nobody wants to talk about the speed of dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Did you want her to kill herself? No. I wanted her to be free. Do you think that's freedom? Maybe not. But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to duplicate elsewhere or otherwise.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Do reflections also travel at the speed of light? What does your buddy Albert think? When the light hits the glass and starts back in the opposite direction doesnt it have to come to a full stop first? And so everything is supposed to hang on the speed of light but nobody wants to talk about the speed of dark. What's
~ Cormac McCarthy
beat the band.
~ D.H. Lawrence
When a dolphin swims fast, it's really fast!
~ Daisy Meadows
The rapidity with which we forget is astonishing. So
~ Dale Carnegie
I got on my bike and drove, fast and recklessly. The humid air pushed thick against my face; if a child had walked in front of my path, I might have killed it. I sped past Jeanette's street and past the Treetop Acres sign and onto Route 118. I squeezed the rubber handlebar caps, squeezed the shaking out of myself. I hated both of them. The harder I pedaled—the more I risked—the better it felt.
~ Wally Lamb
Einstein rejected the emission theory in favor of postulating that the speed of a light beam was constant no matter how fast its source was moving.
~ Walter Isaacson
No, that's not right," Ferris replied. "The lines should be voluptuous, like a Ferrari.
~ Walter Isaacson
A person "at rest" on the equator is actually spinning with the earth's rotation at 1,040 miles per hour and orbiting with the earth around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour.
~ Walter Isaacson
It only remained, he said, that the noble Chiefs assembled, laying aside every lesser consideration, should unite, heart and hand, in the common cause; send the fiery cross through their clans, in order to collect their utmost force, and form their junction with such celerity as to leave the enemy no time, either for preparation, or recovery from the panic which would spread at the first sound of their pibroch.
~ Walter Scott
The absolute best thing anyone can do is grab desperately at the throttle. But they don't. Because it's a speeding death kaleidoscope made out of tits." Adam
~ Warren Ellis
Nature isn't still. Nature is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, just like the rest of us. It's winds and floods and rain and quakes. A huge part of human history is about us just trying to survive the speed of nature.
~ Warren Ellis
The absolute best thing anyone can do is grab desperately at the throttle. But they don't. Because it's a speeding death kaleidoscope made out of tits.
~ Warren Ellis
All those lateral G's. Vertical G's!
~ Wendelin Van Draanen