Speed Quotes - page 2

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. (David Ogden Stiers)
Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. View quote
Vint Cerf
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top. View quote
Deborah Bull
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. View quote
Evan Parker
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record. View quote
Herb Alpert
The primary factor in a successful attack is speed. View quote
Lord Mountbatten
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. View quote
Barbara Kingsolver
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed. View quote
Albert Abraham Michelson
She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt. View quote
Ayn Rand
We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost everything speed towards it. (William Ellery Channing)
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing). View quote
J. G. Ballard
The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone ... Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder. View quote
George Carlin
Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
The immaterial Blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April [1958, together with Jean Tinguely ] had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life. View quote
Yves Klein
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock. View quote
Saint Patrick
The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one. View quote
Wen Jiabao
The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate. View quote
Johan Cruyff
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger. View quote
Ramakrishna
Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control. (David Attenborough)
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since. View quote
Stephen Fry
Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. View quote
Marshall McLuhan