Quotes About Speed

Pasó más tiempo. Llegada una cierta edad, Angela, el tiempo parece caerte en la cabeza igual que la lluvia en un mes de marzo: siempre te sorprende la cantidad en que puede acumularse y la velocidad.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

La velocidad de la oscuridad ha de ser superior a la de la luz, por el sencillo razonamiento de que, cuando la luz llega a un sitio, la oscuridad ya está allí.

A girl like a squirrel! As swift, as sudden, as black and as red!

She was powered by a coal-fired, 350-hp steam engine, capable of driving her at speeds up to 10.2

They are often of hurricane intensity and with gust velocities sometimes attaining to 150 to 200 miles per hour.

Only an estimate could be made of the wind's actual speed, though it was at least 65 knots.

close to 80 knots out of the southwest

From studying the outcome of past expeditions, he believed that those that burdened themselves with equipment to meet every contingency had fared much worse than those that had sacrificed total preparedness for speed.

Hurriedly they ran up every sail to its full height and headed for the narrow opening in the reefs.

be made of the wind's actual speed

She saw herself, a fading figure, more than half-way now towards the sunset end, within sight even of the shadowed emptiness that lay beyond the sun's dipping edge. She had lingered over-long, expecting a dream to confirm a dream; she had been oblivious of the truth that the lane went rushing just the same. It was now too late. The speed increased. She had waited, waited for nothing. The seller of dreams was a myth.

His most vulnerable points, moreover, are said to be the feet and the eyes; the feet, you see, for the lust of wandering, and the eyes for the lust of beauty. The poor beggar goes at such a dreadful speed that he bleeds beneath the eyes, and his feet burn.

He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations.

Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast and be so completely out of control to know the meaning of helplessness to spin across a shining space knowing any moment you might end up hurt, but likewise, all the same, like plus wise you just might not.

Once it would have been a year's worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.

Passing that fiery tree-if only she could; Be making love, Be making poetry, Be exploding, be speeding through the universe; Like a photon, like a shower; Of yellow blazes...

Don't think about jumping, Iggy. We're going about seventy, and despite my orders, we're on our way to Puebla. So keep your ass glued in the goddamn seat.

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

La velocidad pura, cuya finalidad no es ganar tiempo sino huir del tiempo y de todos los lastres que arrastra la duración, en el cenagal de los pensamientos sin atadura, de los cuerpos tristes, de las vidas obesas y de las rumias asmáticas

It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.

My weakness might be that the guys with the longer legs can hold their top speed a little bit longer and might not slow down as fast at the end of the race.

It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.