Speed Quotes
Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration
I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!
Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.
You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.
It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.
We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.
We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
Now I got a time machine at home. It only goes foreword at regular speed. It's essentially a cardboard box and on the outside I wrote time machine in sharpie.
A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.
I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.
If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.
I think my confidence has developed over the years, in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!
Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.