Speed Quotes

1310 Speed quotes by 999 unique authors

Being able to disappear and appear and go through walls and fly with the speed of thought isn't going to make you half as happy… — David Berg
You can travel with the speed of thought! You just think you're on Jupiter and you're there, boom! You just think you're on Saturn and… — David Berg
And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you… — Jimmy Carter
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. — Horace
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. — Rabindranath Tagore
Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin. — Saadi
If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently;… — William Shakespeare
Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is… — Marshall McLuhan
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater… — Marshall McLuhan
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed. — Eleanor Roosevelt
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away… — Alexander Smith
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial… — William Cowper
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… — William Cowper
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope
With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game,… — Gail Sheehy
The idea that He would take his attention away from the universe in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds is just so… — Quentin Crisp
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal
One must strike the right balance between speed and quality. — Clare Short
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems… — Alan Greenspan
Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly ever see them.… — Terry Pratchett
The more haste, ever the worst speed. — Charles Churchill
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to… — Chogyam Trungpa

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