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Quotes About Speed

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.
~ Edward Abbey
Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time
~ George Bradt
Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.
~ Mario Andretti
I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.
~ Willow Smith
Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.
~ David Letterman
I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed
~ Demetri Martin
Say that we're moving at the speed of light.… Impossible, of course, if you believe physicists. Which I don't, by the way. Physicists don't believe in wizards—a fact that I, being a wizard, find highly insulting. I have taken my revenge, therefore, by refusing to believe in physicists. What was the question?
~ Margaret Weis
Esos ríos fluyen depreisa, se derraman como si la tierra se inclinara
~ Marguerite Duras
Correva verso il lago con un volo costante che non pareva corrispondere alla misura del passo umano
~ Maria Bellonci
The name of the game in warfare is to learn faster and act faster than the enemy.
~ Mark Bowden
the greater the stillness, the farther you could travel, until, in absolute immobility, you achieved absolute speed.
~ Mark Helprin
Line cooking done well is a beautiful thing to watch. It's a high-speed collaboration resembling, at its best, ballet or modern dance.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Qualquer sonho que eu pudesse acalentar sobre a magia de uma grande, famosa e elegante cozinha nova-iorquina foi substituído pelo orgulho triste dos expedientes criativos e pela satisfação técnica de ser suficientemente rápido para aguentar e safar-me com truques, mentiras e disfarces.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Todas las noches, durante un par de segundos, y a lo largo de algunos metros, dejaba mi vida en suspenso. Porque según cuál fuera la siguiente canción que sonara en la radio, decidía dar un volantazo en el momento apropiado y seguir disparado hacia casa, a toda velocidad, o enderezar al hijo de puta y precipitarme hacia el barranco y el océano.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti.
~ Anthony Burgess
Com as coisas mudando tão escorre hoje em dia, e todo mundo muito rápido para esquecer, os jornais também não muito lidos.
~ Anthony Burgess
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. —MARIO ANDRETTI
~ Anthony Robbins
Neither he nor Schmidt seems to have appreciated that speed was the decisive factor. They
~ Antony Beevor
It's the fastest who gets paid, and it's the fastest who gets laid.
~ Aristotle
Maintain your speed no matter what happens! For the tikbalang shall chase you --- I regret to say...to the ends of the earth!
~ Arnold Arre
This was the fundamental problem with rockets—and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Many scientists flatly denied the possibility. They pointed out that Discovery, the fastest ship ever designed, would take twenty thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri — and millions of years to travel any appreciable distance across the Galaxy. Even if, during the centuries to come, propulsion systems improved out of all recognition, in the end they would meet the impassable barrier of the speed of light, which no material object could exceed.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Now, at last, the Ramans' strategy was obvious. They had come so close to the Sun merely to tap its energy at the source and to speed themselves even faster on the way to their ultimate, unknown goal.
~ Arthur C. Clarke