"If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Cities Quotes #Want Quotes #Speed Quotes

“We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.”
“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”
“Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.”

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“I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.”
“Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.”
“Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I saw myself as Joan of Arc.”
“When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.”

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