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Quotes About Speed

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
~ Alan Ladd
I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25
~ Bobby Darin
I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
~ Danica Patrick
Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.
~ Demetri Martin
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
~ Rajneesh
We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
~ Spider Robinson
Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.
~ Carroll Smith
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
~ Edwin Moses
Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
~ Sebastian Vettel
The speed of time is one second per second.
~ Steven Wright
The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.
~ Arthur Chu
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
~ Buffalo Bill
And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
~ Calista Flockhart
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.
~ David Byrne
Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.
~ Larry Holmes
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.
~ Paul Morand
I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.
~ Steven Wright
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
~ Will Rogers
I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
~ Elaine Equi
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
~ Isaac Mizrahi
I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.
~ Jana Novotna
There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset