Quotes About Speed

150 miles per hour

In smoothie form, you can drink fruits and vegetables at about two cups a minute—ten times faster than it might take to eat fruits and vegetables in solid form.

reflection?' 'He would not see his reflection presumably, since the light could never reach the mirror from his face if the mirror is receding from it at the same speed.

what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?

Conservatism is progressivism driving the speed limit.

Alice in Wonderland was right: you do have to move twice as fast to stay in the same place, and when you're old, you're too slow to do it and so you lose ground. The future vanishes. You can't remember what you should do tomorrow and then you can't remember what you did today. And in the end all you have is long ago.

Di tanto in tanto spegneva i fari, come aveva fatto quella sera, guidando con l'eccitazione di poter finire in una cunetta a cento all'ora. Cosa cercava? Da cosa fuggiva? […] Non aveva mai trovato una risposta, perché non esisteva. L'azione di buttare fuori e rincorrere era diventata naturale, per lui. Rincorrere una sequenza di dati ignoti, fino alla sua origine in posti oscuri e selvaggi, o nell'anonimato di cemento dei paesaggi cittadini, era quell'azione che lo motivava.

Eighty miles an hour, velocity becomes the measure of our progress, the speed of forgetting.

For these moments in transit, when you ride in the bubble of your own thoughts, without intrusion, moving at sixty, seventy, eighty miles an hour, everything becomes color and speed and, for a moment, you outrace your own woes.

The engine rumbled like a lazy leopard.

Why do people always talk about how fast a car can get from naught to sixty? I mean, what's the big deal about sixty miles an hour? It's like people think aliens are going to land and only be able to do fifty-nine. They'll suck out our brains unless we can do naught to sixty in less than ten seconds.

The SUV was the only car moving. Josh had his foot pressed flat to the floor, and the needle on the speedometer hovered close to eighty. He was becoming more comfortable with the controls—he hadn't hit anything for at least a minute.

The Seahawk did exactly that, nose dropping and accelerating away from the carrier like a really badass bat out of some especially unpleasant hell.

Right now, soles flapping, he was angling at high speed toward the short northwest edge of Red Square, which wasn't actually square at all, but really a long rectangle – typically Orwellian of the Soviets, declaring that 2+2=5. Anyway, he needed to get onto Tverskaya Street, that grand boulevard, fifteen lanes wide, formerly the route of all those phallic parades, and which met the square up at its top end.

Ce n'est pas très difficile de travailler dans un bureau, il suffit d'être un peu méticuleux, de prendre des décisions rapidement, et de s'y tenir. J'avais vite compris qu'il n'est pas forcément nécessaire de prendre /la meilleur décision/, mais qu'il suffit, dans la plupart des cas, de prendre /une décision quelconque/, à condition de la prendre rapidement; enfin, si on travaille dans le secteur public.

Es un poco la posdemocracia, si quieres, pero hoy todo el mundo hace eso, es lo único que funciona, la democracia como sistema está muerta, es demasiado lenta, demasiado pesada.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

How could one help being nervous in this mind-expanding universe, in which the emerging universe would threaten to change unrecognizably in the course of a generation? How could one avoid the ambient fear of all the noise and speed and light and steam? Humans had never been exposed to such phenomona; they had not learned yet to tolerate them.

The closer it came the more speed it gathered about it, until suddenly it was tearing a great hole right through the day.

Wenn die Hunde bellen, dann weil wir galoppieren.

Rowing Slow is about picking the times that you need to go fast, to have the ability to go fast when you need it and slow when it is called for. And going slow is called for.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.