Speed Quotes

The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them on fire.

~ James S.a. Corey

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

~ Ann Voskamp

Now that it is obvious we are falling at a furious speed, we are now just anticipating how much area will be covered by the dust from impact, how many more will not see their fall coming.

~ Fort Free

Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.

~ Warren Ellis

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

~ Edward Whitacre

The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

~ Alan Shepard

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

~ Adam Garcia

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

~ Isaac Asimov

I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.

~ Robert Redford

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

~ Mark Waters

Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.

~ Edgar Ramirez

It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

~ Inga Cadranel

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

~ Steven Wright

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

~ Elon Musk

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

~ Wilson Greatbatch

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

~ Jonathan Ive

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

~ Michael Nielsen

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.

~ Tom Felton

When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.

~ Cesar Millan

With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

~ Apolo Ohno

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.

~ Jochen Zeitz

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

~ Tadao Ando

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

~ Emma Bonino

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

~ Nate Silver

Bad news travels at the speed of light good news travels like molasses.

~ Tracy Morgan

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

~ Nikola Tesla

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

~ Max Weber

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

~ Mary Kay Ash

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

~ Lisa Randall

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

~ Frances E. Willard

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

~ Charles Bass

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

~ Bill Clegg

I like superheroes who are very human and underdog. That's why I relate to my character in 'A Flying Jatt': because he is a very normal person and very human. He was very unsure about his super powers; he didn't know how to use them. He is scared of heights, speed. Especially he is scared of his mom, but he has to listen to her.

~ Tiger Shroff

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.

~ Douglas Coupland

I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.

~ America Ferrera

People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It's like speed dating. You've got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people.

~ Christine Elise

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

~ Jim Rohn