Quotes About Speed

greatest surprises I have encountered has been that the people who seem wisest about the necessity of placing limits on the newest technologies are, often, precisely the ones who helped develop those technologies, which have bulldozed over so many of the limits of old. The very people, in short, who have worked to speed up the world are the same ones most sensitive to the virtue of slowing down.

Pour lui, c'est le destin qui entre en gare. Il est seul au monde, fasciné par le train qui fonce sur lui, qui va quitter les rails, dévorer le quai, l'écraser contre le mur.

The bus was going at a vertiginous speed. Night fell. Through the fogged-up windows the riders thrown against one another, as the bus shook along, saw fantastic landscapes unfold looking nothing like those of Parisian boulevards.…When Pearl White woke up, the bus had as if run aground on a deserted field. Thousands of empty cans were the only presence in these in-decipherable lands." [From, Homme sans tête]

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.

When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip.

The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system.

Speed is vital. You got to strike fast. Fads have short lives, and you got to get what you can - like the case of the Pet Rock.

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

I can't imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.

Useful lessons can be learned from our more successful local authorities - as you move into government, it is even more imperative to communicate speedily and persuasively with your members and your voters.

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

But I am not a serial dater or anything like that. Maybe when lockdown is over, I can do speed dating for weeks on end!

I have two settings: full speed and stop.

One medal. One shot. One lap. Eight riders. No lanes. No right of way. Just go.

I have seen 'Fast Six,' and it's awesome.

I think my speed and awkwardness is hard to deal with for any fighter.

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

Certainly, I want to be the first through the sound barrier in a car.

I always thought Mario Cipollini was difficult to beat but I think Cipollini would have found it very hard against Cavendish.

I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.