Quotes about Speed

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

For her life, like human life everywhere on the planet, had speeded up and speeded up until peace was rarely possible. Always there was movement, noise, inevitable and constant distraction [. ...] a madness had seized the earth. The madness of speed. As if to speed things up meant to actually go somewhere. And where, after all, was there to go? The present is all there ever is, no matter how much you lean forward or back.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight.

Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway — it's an attitude.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.

The driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

Life in the fast laneSurely make you lose your mind.

Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy,I don't mind, I think they're crazyRunning everywhere at such a speedTill they find there's no need.Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles awayAnd after all I'm only sleeping.