Speed famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.
-- Adrian Peterson -
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
-- Alan Alda -
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
-- Aldous Huxley -
when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.
-- Allyson Felix -
I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.
-- Amber Heard -
It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.
-- Amby Burfoot -
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
-- Amory Lovins -
In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
-- Ann Voskamp -
A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer -
Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.
-- Apolo Ohno -
My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.
-- Apolo Ohno -
I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.
-- Arjen Robben -
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
-- Arthur Ganson -
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
-- B. C. Forbes -
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
-- B. C. Forbes -
Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.
-- Ben Stiller -
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
-- Betsey Johnson -
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
-- Bill Gaede -
Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.
-- Bob Newhart -
I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.
-- Bob Seger -
Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.
-- Brian Tracy -
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.
-- Carol Alt -
It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
-- Carol Kane -
She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
-- Cees Nooteboom -
Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.
-- Channing Tatum -
I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.
-- Christopher Titus -
One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.
-- Clare Short -
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
-- Clarence Thomas -
[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
-- Conor Oberst -
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
-- D. Wayne Lukas -
I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!
-- David Haye -
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
-- David Mitchell -
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
-- David Mitchell -
There are no speed limits on the road to success.
-- David W. Johnson -
I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed
-- Demetri Martin -
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
-- Dionysius Lardner -
Leaning to the side but you can't speed through; 2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.
-- DJ Jazzy Jeff -
You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.
-- Dr. Seuss -
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.
-- Ed Ayres -
Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
-- Edward Abbey -
To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.
-- Edward Hoagland -
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
-- Edward Ruscha -
You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.
-- Eric Ries -
The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
-- Erin Wasson -
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
-- Ethel M. Dell -
A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.
-- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
-- Frances E. Willard -
Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.
-- Frank Shorter -
If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards
-- Fred Hoiberg -
I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.
-- Gayle King -
Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time
-- George Bradt -
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
-- George Monbiot -
The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom.
-- Georgess McHargue -
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
-- Glenn Ford -
You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?
-- Gordon Bethune -
Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.
-- Grant Cardone -
America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.
-- Greg Abbott -
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.
-- Grove Karl Gilbert -
Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice.
-- Guthrie Govan -
Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what’s going on.
-- H. L. Richardson -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.
-- Helena Christensen -
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
-- Henry Morton Stanley -
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
-- Hermann Oberth -
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.
-- Hiroshi Sugimoto -
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
-- Isaac Asimov -
We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.
-- Jack Gilbert -
Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that’s pretty/Is the thought of getting out,
-- Jake Bugg -
I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.
-- Jamal Lewis -
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me
-- Jamal Lewis -
The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
-- Jaron Lanier -
Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.
-- Jason Kidd -
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
-- Jason Patric -
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
-- Jason Patric -
For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.
-- Jean Paul -
The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick -
You can speed up your life if you want to - that's easy. Winding down is what's hard.
-- Jennifer James -
When speed dating I'm seeking my equal or at least one in the making.
-- Jenny Jay -
Time doesn’t flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up,
-- Jim Al-Khalili -
It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.
-- Jim Steinman
