Speed Quotes

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

He needs both patience and speed.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.

The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.

Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.

Skill development, speed and scale are the 3 important aspects that are relevant to the present-day growth and development module.

I wasn't too good at vaulting, and I didn't have running speed and jumping power.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

Lleyton Hewitt... his two greatest strengths are his legs, his speed, his agility and his competitiveness.

I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

My speed is my greatest asset.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

Don't judge your running by your speed.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy.