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Quotes About Speed

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
~ Paul Morand
Vite et mal, c'est ma devise!
~ Paul Morand
Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
~ Paul Rand
Do not ride the brakes," Jerry warned Arlin. "The rims will over heat
~ Unknown
Using a double bass drum in rock came about as a way to emulate what John Bonham of Led Zeppelin managed to do with one bass drum. His foot was so fast that it took most drummers two kick drums and both feet to mimic it.
~ Paul Stanley
The reason this UFO crashed was no different from youngsters (18 to 22 years of age) driving cars at excessive speeds on the 400 series highways in Canada or Interstate highways in the USA. The pilot and co-pilot who were young were not aware of the earth's gravitational pull and it was too late to slow down when they reversed their thrusters so they crashed. Most of the craft was not seriously damaged but the collision caused havoc on board.
~ Unknown
I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.
~ Paul Walker
It was Lavender who drove us to the Norfolk Hotel in Jock's yellow Bugatti. He sped through the streets of Nairobi, throwing me across the leather backseat towards Jock, so that I nearly bruised myself against his clenched thighs.
~ Paula McLain
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
Nace el ave, y con las galas que le dan belleza suma, apenas es flor de pluma, o ramillete con alas, cuando las etéreas salas corta con velocidad, negándose a la piedad del nido que dejan en calma; ¿y teniendo yo más alma, tengo menos libertad?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
porque pasé como pasa uno siempre por su vida, a toda velocidad y a los tumbos.
~ Unknown
One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.
~ Unknown
Swift stars with flashing tresses
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.
~ Perry Brass
Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
~ Peter Drucker
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.
~ Unknown
Ah, that's the Jaguar-Chevrolet 2251 T-bird, the convertible
~ Peter F. Hamilton
ya que el impulso de compartir de inmediato experiencias positivas es universal. Esta revelación les hizo ver que su problema contenía una oportunidad. Si lograran idear la manera de colgar vídeos en la red, libremente y con velocidad, facilidad y calidad, todo el mundo querría usar ese servicio.
~ Peter Guber
Children woke up at six-thirty in the morning and shifted directly into fourth gear. Fourteen hours later they rushed straight into sleep at more than a hundred miles an hour without decelerating.
~ Peter Høeg
Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.
~ Judges 5:22
The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
~ 2 Samuel 2:18
“No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.
~ 2 Samuel 18:23
Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi—he is driving like a madman!”
~ 2 Kings 9:20
He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
~ Isaiah 5:26