Quotes About Speed

if a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.

But if she is allowed to move at constant speed without pausing at Zeno's imaginary checkpoints—and why not?—then the time it takes to travel each of Zeno's intervals is proportional to the distance covered in that interval, and so since the total distance is finite, as is the total time—and fortunately for all of us—motion is possible after all.

Scully was doing the driving, which she preferred. Mulder knew only two speeds: fast and faster.

Well, in OUR country,' said Alice, still panting a little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing.' 'A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. 'Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

Si cada uno se ocupase de lo suyo el mundo iría mucho más deprisa de lo que va.

Querría ser…, tan amable…, -jadeó Alicia después de correr un rato más- de parar un minuto…, sólo para…, recobrar el aliento? - Tan amable, sí soy -contestó el Rey- sólo que fuerte no lo soy tanto. Ya sabes lo veloz que corre un minuto. ¡Intentar pararlo sería como querer alcanzar a un zamarrajo!

I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset.

Pedestrians were few, and cars barreled past with whining snow tires, in a hurry to be elsewhere.

The speed with which Anne Sexton found acceptance within the cadre of the literary elite was indeed remarkable, but it belied the work required.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.