Speed Quotes

1310 Speed quotes by 999 unique authors

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue. — William Shakespeare
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. — Terry Pratchett
He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and… — Lois Lowry
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away — Robert Frost
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. — Robert Fulghum
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of… — Mike Yaconelli
All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time… — Carlos Castaneda
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery — Neal Stephenson
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their… — Maya Angelou
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished… — Albert Einstein
All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in… — William Gibson
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly… — Malcolm Gladwell
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably… — Maya Angelou
Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth.… — David Baldacci
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.… — Markus Zusak

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