Speed Quotes

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two.

Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.

Act now. Act with speed.

Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

The quality of the team determines the speed of the dream.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed.....it's like he has cork in his arms.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

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 likely to moderate its speed.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.