Speed Quotes

1310 Speed quotes by 999 unique authors

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell… — Barbara Kingsolver
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is,… — Booth Tarkington
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. — Milan Kundera
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores… — Elizabeth McCracken
The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of… — Robert Frost
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..."… — Frank Beddor
He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours? — Jeaniene Frost
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. — George Monbiot
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time… — Deb Caletti
She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt. — Ayn Rand
Ye gods! But you're not standing around holding it by the hand all this time. No. [...] [T]he dough takes care of itself. [...] While… — Julia Child
It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible… — Joe Hill
The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my… — Kim Harrison
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. — Chuck Palahniuk
We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds… — Jodi Picoult
It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train… — Lorrie Moore
Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed! — Eddie Izzard
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to… — John Green
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For… — Frank Herbert
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and… — Sara Zarr
and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world. — Frank O'Hara
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death. — Hunter S. Thompson

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