Quotes about Speed

If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.

A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

A solitary cyclist was coming towards us. His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. He was flying like a racer.

It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.

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.

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.