Quotes About Speed

The world's turning a whole lot faster than it should be.

It was a race to see which ship could fire

Once I was a scuba diver in a sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts—the faster, the better.

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Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I Zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I'm online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Why postpone a necessary element of running with a deviation like heel striking when we can land directly into our next point of action without delay?

Irigaray was my favourite. She denounced Einstein's E = mc2 as a sexist equation which 'privileges the speed of light' over more feminine speeds 'which are vitally necessary to us'. Presumably, light might have appeased her if it had shown its feminine side by slowing down to 30 m.p.h. in built-up areas.)

They would write songs of what followed: the horses dancing; the spears flickering like swords, faster than the eye could see; Llanza's perfect seat; Peretur's grace, lithe as a cat; the sweat running down their mounts' flanks. The crack of Llanza's spear as it split.

Send me strength, she called-to whom?-and kicked Bony to a gallop, and hurled her javelin hard and true.

EL mayor triunfo de la ciencia parece estar en la velocidad creciente con que el bobo puede trasladar su bobería de un sitio a otro sitio.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Remember, it's not how fast you go in a Formula 1 car that injures or kills you – it is how quickly you stop.

The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

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People don't get into planes because they want to fly, they get into planes because they want to get somewhere else faster. What's produced the aeroplane is not so much a desire to fly as a rebellion against the tyranny of time and space.

In these days we're in a hare-and-tortoise race between mob rule and education: to avoid collapsing into mod rule we have to try to educate a minority that'll stand out against it. The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

The slowest-spinning object in the known universe is the nearest planet, Venus. A person could walk faster than it rotates.

rushing along its annual course round the sun at the rate of nineteen miles every second.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

C'è spesso, nella mia vita, una sorta di fatalità. E questa fatalità, non noi, ha determinato ciò che doveva accadere. È accaduto troppo in fretta? Può darsi. Ma le cose importanti come nascere amare e morire non guardano il tempo dell'orologio, mio caro Peer Gynt.