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Quotes About Speed

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.
~ John Giordani
Ill weed groweth fast.
~ John Heywood
Then go faster. But don't go stupid.
~ John Jackson Miller
I'd skimmed along life like a surfer, mistaking speed for direction. I'd feigned to be pressing forward when I was really running away
~ John Johnson
a keelboat's theoretical hull speed—the top speed it can attain without surfing or planing—is dictated by a simple formula: the square root of the waterline length multiplied by 1.34.
~ John Kretschmer
Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.
~ John Lloyd
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
~ John Malkovich
The shoes had come to define him as he proceeded to break every sprinting record at New Bedford High School and other high schools across the Commonwealth, earning himself the nickname Fast Eddie.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Space is big, and even at ludicrous rates of speed, crossing chunks of it takes a long time.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We were moving fast, but at least we were within lightspeed communication range that wasn't longer than a human lifetime.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Warming today is taking place at least ten times faster than it did at the end of the last glaciation, and at the end of all those glaciations that preceded it. To keep up, organisms will have to migrate, or otherwise adapt, at least ten times more quickly.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The Night Is Freezing Fast," by A. E. Housman
~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
life picked up speed, and then most of it was gone—made you breathless, really.
~ Elizabeth Strout
There was a young lady named Bright,Whose speed was far faster than light;She set out one dayIn a relative way,And returned home the previous night.
~ Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
Faster time meant lower costs, of course, and quicker return on investors' money.
~ Arthur Herman
Neither matter, nor energy, nor anything capable of being used as a signal can travel faster than the speed of light. This limitation of the speed signalling to 299,796 kilometres a second seems a rather arbitrary decree of Nature.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
The speed of 299,796 kilometres a second, which occupies a unique position in every measure-system, is commonly referred to as the speed of light. But it is much more than that; it is the speed at which the mass of matter becomes infinite, lengths contract to zero, clocks stand still.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
She began to cry. "Cry quicker, or the call'll get too expensive.
~ Arto Paasilinna
código del escorpión: mira despacio, pica rápido y vete más rápido todavía. —De
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Fucking incredible! Four miles in five minutes, with a slight maneuver to avoid an oil barge anchored halfway in. And when the HJ peeled away and abandoned the pursuit and the helicopter began to fall back and gain altitude, Teresa stood up in the middle of the speedboat and, still illuminated by the spotlight, lifted a triumphant single finger. Adiós Cabróooon.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
If this wasn't automotive foreplay, what was?
~ Ashleigh Raine
Time flies and so do bullets.
~ Athena Athena
Físicamente, vivimos más tiempo que en el pasado, pero la percepción del tiempo es mucho más rápida. Los meses corren, los años vuelan. Algunos están en la cumbre de su juventud psíquica, pero se miran y descubren que tienen setenta u ochenta años.
~ Augusto Cury
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
~ Author Unknown