Quotes About Speed

Swordplay is not about strength.  It is about speed and agility, and the ability to read the mind of your opponent so you know what thrust he will make as soon as he knows himself.

Newton's law of gravity says that the acceleration of any object as it orbits another is proportional to the mass of the body it is orbiting.......Thus if you know the speed of a body in orbit around a star and its distance from the star, you can measure the mass of that star. The same holds for stars in orbit around the center of their galaxy; by measuring the orbital speeds of the stars, you can measure the distribution of mass in that galaxy.

Being at rest becomes merely a special case of uniform motion-it is just motion at zero speed.

We were a blues band, really. Although we played it at a thousand miles an hour, it was recognizable as blues – at least to us it was; probably it wasn't to anybody else.

Behind these two booths was an enormous roller coaster, a phrase which here mean 'a series of small carts where people can sit and race up and down steep and frightening hills of tracks, for no discernible reason

Velocity!" Sunny shrieked. I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried.

I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried. "I'm moving these noodles as quickly as I can!

Behind these two booths was an enormous roller coaster, a phrase which here means "a series of small carts where people can sit and race up and down steep and frightening hills of tracks, for no discernible reason

What can I do?" Klaus asked. "You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.

B-R-B!" I screamed, which is faster to say than Be Right Back!

But when the truck straightened out and began to gain speed, I was still holding on. I tapped the window with the Colt. The passenger was that same guy who'd given me the glowering look at the top of the pass into Hog Hollow.

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Su cabeza trabaja tan deprisa que su cuerpo no puede seguirla

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

El que está dotado de la capacidad de hacer algo con rapidez, siempre la valora mucho, y en muchos casos sin prestar atención alguna a la imperfección de la ejecución.

One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.

I was built for comfort, not for speed

At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.

It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Ordinarily, a trip from Westwood to downtown Los Angeles took an hour. But Kate drove with the pedal to the floor, weaving wildly through traffic. She got there in twenty minutes and even managed to eat one of her Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuits on the way.

It was dark and raining, with bad visibility, but this was Jersey, and we don't slow down for anything.

Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high leverage.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.