Speed Quotes

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.

If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

All I want to do is speed, speed.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.