Quotes About Speed

Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.

Puisque la beauté court je dois courir plus vite

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.

Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A star the size of a city, a city the size of a star, whirling round and round, its death-song caught by a radio receiver, light years later, like a recorded message nobody heard, back-played now into infinity across time. Love and loss.

Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it!

Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.

The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

You can gain a lot of time from an aggressive strategy, but you can lose a lot of time from an aggressive strategy.

As soon as I got my driver's license, I went crazy, and I got the Ford Cosworth, which was this limited edition street racing turbo. It was like this 200-miles-an-hour monster.

You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.

I raced a lot when I was in high school, street raced.

White dude speed' is the kind of quickness that you see from a guy who's trying to beat the 'Do Not Walk' sign across the street. They're moving but not fast enough to scuff their boat shoes.

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

As I started to do a lot of fitness I gained a little bit more strength and I was a little bit slow around the court.

When I'm a little lighter, I feel faster and I feel better. I thought I needed to be big, but I learned that I'm better off being quicker and more agile, because I still have strength.