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Quotes About Speed

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.
~ Rodger Ward
When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.
~ Roger Clemens
Horse racing is animated roulette.
~ Roger Kahn
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.
~ Rollo May
Ce qu'il y a en effet de frappant dans l'« accélération de l'histoire » que nous vivons, c'est que cette vitesse vertigineuse à laquelle le monde court vers l'avenir s'accompagne d'une absence de contrôle sur la direction de marche.
~ Romain Gary
In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee ), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang , 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.
~ Rory Stewart
Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.
~ Rory Stewart
Let's be quick. I should like to catch up to them before they marry and I am forced to make Suzette a widow.
~ Lynsay Sands
Se os mortos vão depressa, os velhos ainda vão mais depressa que os mortos... Viva a mocidade!
~ Machado de Assis
O major, porém, continuava a andar com aquele passo rápido dos majores que andam depressa.
~ Machado de Assis
Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here. Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything, Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkle.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Well, then, someone just tell me how we got here! Calvin's voice was still angry and his freckles seemed to stand out on his face. Even traveling at the speed of light, it would take us years and years to get here. Oh we don't travel by the speed of anything, Mrs. Whatsit explained earnestly. We teaser. Or you might say, we wrinkle.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We argue that approaching our professional practice from a perspective influenced by the Slow movement has the potential to disrupt the corporate ethos of speed.
~ Maggie Berg
A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
~ David Brier
The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice
~ Nathan W. Morris
In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
~ Shawn Casemore
The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Want to go really fast? Slow down and focus.
~ Tim Fargo
The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms!
~ Anais Nin
I feel a rush of excitement whenever I get near the track.
~ Andrew Beyer
my Ninja Snails. 'Watch this!' 'Attack!' 'Fly!
~ Andy Griffiths
Chris cursed lavishly. He sped up, then shouted, "Hold on!" Less than a second later, he stamped on the
~ Sandra Brown