Quotes About Speed

It feels as if my life is moving forward at two separate speeds, one at the usual pace, with its predictable rhythms and familiar inhabitants, and the other rushing ahead, a blur of color and sound and sensation. It's clear to me now that for twenty years I have gone through the motions of each day like a dumb animal, neither daring to hope for a different kind of life nor even knowing enough to desire one.

I've never been to a race car race before.

I'm quite capable of walking," she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short." They are not!

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.

He could inhale a dozen pierogi in less than sixty seconds.

The greatest deed in war is the speediest end of that war, and every means to that end must remain open.

What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.

Weyrother evidently felt himself to be at the head of a movement that had already become unrestrainable. He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

The speed of light is about 300,000 kilometers per second.

A rat is more alive than a turtle. A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin

So clumsy, yet her dinner parties were splendid, prepared at unbelievable speed. She hated to cook. Chewing gum, cigarettes, candy, drugs, alcohol, and taxicabs took her from Monday to Friday.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating, speed

And now, haste, haste, haste.

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!"

I drive relatively fast - within the remits of the law, obviously - but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.