Quotes About Speed

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.

The function ei(kx-?t) represents a wave that travels at a speed of ?/k, which we have just shown to be equal to -k2. Therefore, the different plane-wave components of the solution travel at different speeds: the higher the angular frequency, the greater the speed. For this reason, the equation (1) is called dispersive.

Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The

They handled hundreds of cases at a time, at a pace of sixty per hour or more; the life or death of an individual human was decided in a minute or less. In a single night the Leningrad troika, for example, sentenced to death 658 prisoners of the concentration camp at Solovki.55

The Gar Wood was a 1947 Ensign, its lines designed for cutting small chop at high speed, not for coping with deep-water swell. The boat teetered at the crest of the wave then tipped down the other side, nearly swamping.

Do you believe you're an outgrowth of a living sphere? A huge mass rocketing through space faster than a bullet shot out of a gun around another ball of fire? You may know it, but you don't feel it. If you did—and I mean deep in your bones—it would profoundly change the way you live your life.

You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?

A lot of teams get a lot of offense off the rush.

My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.

Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.

I've been on and off motorbikes most of my life.

I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

There's only one way to play this game since I was a little kid - play fast, play physical, play strong.

It's one of the things I always do. I move faster onscreen. Creates a sense of danger.

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Your as slow as a fat kid on crutches

Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.

A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start. (Interview, The Paris Review , Issue 64, Winter 1975)

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

You can't fling the hands up in a passionate gesture when you are driving a car at fifty miles an hour. Otherwise, I should have done so.

I was back at the flat so quick that I nearly met myself coming out.