Top 25 Speed Quotes of 319 - Page 3

I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie. We weren't stoned when we made them; I was stoned when I made movies up. I did them all.

John Waters

Drug, Black, Speed

Source: www.timeout.com

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

Jack Gilbert

Time, Burning, Speed

Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.19, Knopf

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

Frances E. Willard

Sympathy, Fashion, Speed

Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy.

Flannery O'Connor

Children, Speed, Mercy

Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

Dionysius Lardner

Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

Bill Viola

Light, Dna, Speed

When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.

Quincy Jones

Inspirational, Hills, Speed

The city that has speed has success.

Le Corbusier

Cities, Speed

Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Fondation Le Corbusier (1983). “Urbanisme, Algiers, and other buildings and projects, 1930-1933”, Facsimiles-Garl

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

Arthur Ganson

Engineering, Ratios, Speed

Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.

Rumi

Moving, Speed, Seekers

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.159, Shambhala Publications

Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.

John Muir

Done, Speed, Miles

John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.451, e-artnow

Nothing is the speed limit of thought.

Henri Michaux

Limits, Speed, Speed Limits

Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.

Barbara Johnson

Today, Lasts, Speed

Barbara Johnson (1998). “Boomerang Joy: Joy that Goes Around, Comes Around : 60 Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

Speed slows down the game.

Tim McCarver

Baseball, Games, Speed

Tim McCarver, Danny Peary (2013). “Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans: Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro”, p.269, Villard

What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

Peter Golenbock

Joy, Racing, Speed

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Orson Welles

Computer, Speed, High Speed

Source: www.npr.org

Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

Esther Hicks

Want, Speed, Ready