Speed Quotes - page 4

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" (William F. Buckley)
For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. View quote
Plutarch
You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes. View quote
Stephen Spender
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth. View quote
Paul Virilio
Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game. View quote
Jacques Plante
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue . . . View quote
William Shakespeare
In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development. (Tim Buck)
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
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. View quote
Anthony Stafford Beer
Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow. View quote
Jaron Lanier
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
With each technological ‘revolution', more energies began to be accessed, stored, and used than had been in the preceding epoch...On the whole, technological change is irreversible: whatever the nature of a technological revolution, it is always from the hoe to the plough, and not the other way around...Improvement generally means greater efficiency in the use of energy, materials, or information. It means greater speed, less investment of time and money, and operation on a larger scale. View quote
Ervin László
I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Run!” Piper said. "We are running!” Jason picked up the speed. "Run better!” Leo shouted. View quote
Rick Riordan
I frowned. "You mean Set's got, like, other evil gods on speed dial? (Rick Riordan)
I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing. View quote
Rick Riordan
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. View quote
Suzanne Somers
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff. View quote
Tom Felton
In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability. View quote
William H. McRaven