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Quotes About Speed

Through space-time, yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. When you're not moving at all in space, you're moving at the speed of light, so to speak, through time—the fastest the universe allows you to do so. When you're moving at the speed of light through space, you stop moving through time.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Relativity works in the realm of the large. It deals with gravity and mass and speed. Quantum mechanics deals with the very small. Elementary particles. Like electrons. Both paint a picture of a universe that seems ridiculous. Crazier than something out of a fantasy novel.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Relativity works in the realm of the large. It deals with gravity and mass and speed. Quantum mechanics deals with the very small. Elementary particles. Like electrons. Both paint a picture of a universe that seems ridiculous. Crazier than something out of a fantasy novel." "For instance?" prompted Elovic. "Relativity shows that as an object speeds up, time itself passes more and more slowly for it. At the speed of light, time stops altogether.
~ Douglas E. Richards
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
~ Douglas E. Richards
It's as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
we have somehow assumed that the interests of speed, or some other function of athletic performance, somehow set aside the requirements of propriety and modesty. In the ancient world, athletes competed naked, and in the modern world, in some events, they might as well be.
~ Douglas Wilson
Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.
~ Douglas Wilson
Time travel isn't a problem. We're all pretty good at it. The current problem is we only know how to do it in one direction and at one speed.
~ Dr. Rich Melheim
You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.
~ Dr. Seuss
Dr. Shreenivas R. Deshpande
~ Be quick yet right
I just bought a Lambourghini, Im not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station.
~ Drake
Johnny Quick: Did we save the world, then? Batman: We did. Johnny Quick: And all that rubbish about me being faster than Flash? You knew this was gonna happen. Good one, mate.
~ Dwayne McDuffie
When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.
~ Steve McQueen
When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.
~ Richard Hammond
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
~ Jeff Gordon
Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.
~ Dev Anand
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
~ Chael Sonnen
My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.
~ Gerry Lindgren
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
~ Jean Genet
Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye
~ Jimi Hendrix
She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
~ Frances E. Willard
Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.
~ Jim Bouton