Quotes About Speed

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.

The modern world was a burning bus speeding toward a cliff with a maniac at the wheel. And he was not apart, but complicit, a hyperactive child making yuk-yuks in his seat, keeping everyone laughing, distracting them from certain doom. Faster, faster, no more room to brake.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts regarding the validity of Gloria's theory that I can overcome my heroin addiction by the simple process of shooting up vast quantities of speed with her twenty times daily.

If you want to be fast and agile, keep things simple. Speed isn't the result of simplicity, but simplicity enables speed.

Hockey is murder on ice.

Sandy's fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt.

We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Kind of like Batman. On a motorcycle.

Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

The days are like deer leaping into the forest...they go so fast.

The act of driving the car made him feel he was a powerful being who could conquer the world. Up over hills, fast down on the other side. It was like playing god and commanding everything within hearing to awaken and listen to him. The people sleeping in the white farmhouses were at the mercy of the sound of his engine roaring past in the night.

They'd jumped into his car and sped off onto the motorway, heading in the wrong direction for ten minutes before they even noticed.

Il silenzio era il sottofondo delle cose e la bicicletta misurava la velocità della vita.

At the highest speed I can sustain on the hills, about 14 minutes for a mile, I do not even try to think of anything else.

Four blessings upon you - Older whiskey - Younger women - Faster horses - More money

At every level I was promoted faster than I ever thought.

If you come to Formula One you have already proved that you are able to adapt and learn and be fast.

Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes...

From that moment, events rushed on with breath-taking speed. I spent the two and a half months until my arrest in tormented conflict between reason and the kind of foreboding which Lermontov called "prophetic anguish.