Quotes About Speed

Passing through the outskirts of the city, she thought, it's as though everything were traveling so fast that the solid stuff couldn't stand it and were going to pieces under the strain, cornices blowing off and windows caving in. She knew she was afraid to say it truly, afraid to face the knowledge that it was a voluntary neck-breaking speed, a deliberate swirling faster and faster to end in destruction.

Ik schrijf zo snel omdat ik benieuwd ben naar de afloop.

Most plates move relatively slowly—the North American Plate, for example, is shifting westward at about twenty millimeters a year, somewhat less than the rate at which human fingernails grow. The Pacific Plate is, by contrast, something of a speed demon: it moves ten times as rapidly, and in a habitual northwesterly direction, covering something like two centimeters each year.

To cross the southern coast of England, west to east, is thus to travel forwards - and at breathtaking chronological speed - in a self-propelled time-machine. With every few hundred yards of eastward progress one passes through hundreds of thousands of years of geological time: a million years of history goes by with every couple of miles march.

The car was sporting and rather dangerous, and the lights were powerful affairs fed by acetylene gas. Sam sped on, with a feeling of power, of dominating the universe, at twelve dizzy miles an hour.

Dear killer, spare not they sweet-cruel shot: A kind of grace it is to slay with speed. - From Astrophel and Stella

I've learned to read a lot faster since I've been at Carter Spink.

In fact, I do everything faster. I walk faster, talk faster, eat faster Ã¢â'¬Â¦ have sex faster Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Come, Fate, a friend at need, Come with all speed! Come, my best friend, And speed my end! Away, away! Let me not look upon another day!

Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.

All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed...My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life.I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.

Scientist say that music can change the speed of a heartbeat. They failed to add: so can a text message.

Living Life In The Fast Lane is Great...Until You Crash.

Does light go faster when it goes downhill?

if you allow central control of a network, then innovation will proceed at the speed deemed suitable by the controller, rather than by the inventiveness of outsiders.

Acceleration stalled

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.

These guys put the 'bone' in Zamboni

There is no god but Road Runner and Chuck Jones is his prophet.