Quotes About Speed

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He was good at coming off the bench and igniting the attack with his quickness and speed.

It was hell living in the twenty-first century. Information transfer had reached the velocity of light.

I can type very fast, sometimes even faster than I can think of what to type.

I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

The only birdcall I know is the Road Runner's BEEP BEEP.)

He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome __ speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

I run. I am made for running. Because when you run, you could be anyone. You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. You respond as a body, to the body. If you are racing to win, you have no thoughts but the body's thoughts, no goals but the body's goals. You obliterate yourself in the name of speed. You negate yourself in order to make it past the finish line.

The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

his voice was high and strange, as if it had been recorded and was now being played back at a faster speed.

Velocità ascensionale media – a term coined by the controversial Italian physician and coach Michele Ferrari, meaning average ascent speed in English and used to measure the speed of elevation gain, usually stated in units of metres per hour. It is a parameter used in cycling as

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action, including dialogue, is fast, and accelerates; reflective writing is a brake and slows—and they will set off a pumping action that makes the story breathe. The speed of that breathing is set by the measure of action to reflection. More action, less reflection—faster. More reflection, less action—slower.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

On occasion we say to ourselves, panting, 'Gosh, life is racing by.' But that's not it at all, it's the contrary: life is still. It is we who are racing by.

Its getting late early

A tap runs fast the first time you switch it on.

Ryan was convinced of the aging fifties motto 'Live fast, die young', and, though his scooter didn't do more than 22 m.p.h. downhill, he liked to warn Clara in grim tones not to get 'too involved', for he wouldn't be here long; he was 'going out' early and with a 'bang'".

Ryan was convinced of the ageing fifties motto 'Live fast, die young', and, though his scooter didn't do more than 22 m.p.h. downhill...

I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.

Everything's so accelerated now.