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Quotes About Speed

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. -Author Unknown
~ Jack Canfield
The one big exception was a hostage rescue mission, where safety was sacrificed for speed in the name of protecting the hostage.
~ Unknown
Wyatt Earp: Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gunfight you must learn to be slow in a hurry.
~ Unknown
I've told you before, as fast as you are, even you can't outrun time. It has a nasty way of catching up with you. Trust me. I know.
~ Unknown
Speed. Surprise. Violence of action.
~ Unknown
You're a fast learner," she remarked. "You've gone from slowpoke to safety hazard in one day.
~ Jack Gantos
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!
~ Jack London
When it was [Larry] Bird's turn [to sign souvenir Team USA basketballs], he said to [Brian] McIntyre ' What's the quickest it's taken anyone to do this?' McIntyre said between fifteen and twenty minutes. Bird said, 'Time me,' finished in about six minutes, tossed the pen to McIntyre and said, 'Won another one, didn't I?
~ Unknown
If they ask for me, Say, she rides where comets go, And outpaces light.
~ Jack McDevitt
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
~ Jack Nicholson
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster
~ Jack Nicklaus
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
~ Jack Welch
Go Fast or be last
~ Unknown
You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.
~ Unknown
this ain't the 4-H rodeo at the Pocahontas County Fair.... this is horse racing
~ Unknown
Mason used to be one of Jack's best friends. He was a good center, but an even better winger. The boys started out in Mites together and had been on teams together ever since. Mason had Jack beat on speed, but he couldn't match Jack's stickhandling.
~ Unknown
Hold on to your hats, ladies!' cried Jasper Dash. 'You're in for a wild ride! This futuristic buggy can attain speeds of up to thirty-five miles per hour!
~ Unknown
not the quickest bunny in the centrifuge?
~ Unknown
Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.
~ John Fowles
She felt the speed of her fall accelerate. When the cruel ground rushes up, when the fall is from such a height, what use are precautions?
~ John Fowles
Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
~ John Galsworthy
Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.
~ John Grisham
The faster I ran, the faster the llama ran. I could hear the monkey squealing, having fun, I guess.
~ John Grisham
L'età ci arriva di soppiatto alle spalle, ma in un cane arriva con una rapidità mozzafiato, che induce a riflettere.
~ John Grogan