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Quotes About Speed

Fear can give you urgent wings.
~ Margaret Mahy
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
~ Unknown
It's crazy how your future is somebody else's past, and that's just cause life moves too fast.
~ Unknown
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
~ Unknown
I would urge the driver to go as fast as he possibly could, so that the minutes might pass less slowly which I must spend without having anyone at hand to dispense me from the obligation myself to provide my sensibility
~ Marcel Proust
People said that an age of speed required rapidity in art, precisely as they might have said that the next war could not last longer than a fortnight, or that the coming of railways would kill the little places beloved of the coaches, which the motor-car, for all that, was to restore to favour.
~ Marcel Proust
La force qui fait le plus de fois le tour de la terre en une seconde, ce n'est pas l'électricité, c'est la douleur.
~ Marcel Proust
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8msecsec.
~ Unknown
In the early 1990s a PhD student by the name of Zhihong Xia proved that there is a way to configure five planets such that when you let them go, the combined gravitational pull causes one of the planets to fly off and reach an infinite speed in a finite amount of time.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.
~ Marcus Luttrell
When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.
~ Margaret Atwood
Fear can give you urgent wings.
~ Margaret Mahy
At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.
~ Maria de Villota
With all due respect." Sam folded his arms over his chest. "If all you wanted was an extra diver, you probably should not have hired an archaeologist. We're devils when it comes to details, and not likely to opt for speed when accuracy is at stake.
~ Unknown
Fear? There is no fear when you ride a MotoGP bike. If there is fear, you don't enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it, you'd better stay at home.
~ Unknown
Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.
~ Hugh Herr
When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.
~ Cesar Millan
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
~ Gordon Ramsay
To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.
~ George Carlin
For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.
~ Jennifer Beals
The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom.
~ Georgess McHargue
One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure.
~ Steve McQueen
Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.
~ Henry Ford
Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.
~ Yngwie Malmsteen