Speeding Quotes - Page 2

• Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Doe, Photograph

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• Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the left even before her body turned, and look for his face. The evening minute as she hurried down the street, her happiness curling her mouth upward to the white sky, the red wings speeding her to him, to look up at him and smile.

  Paullina Simons

  White, Doors, Sky

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• I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.

  Paula Poundstone

  Persons, Knows

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• It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sin, Wealth, Welfare

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.115, Chronicle Books

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• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Cat, Sheep

  "Beyond Black". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2005.

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• If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

  Joe Hill

  Ocean, Ties, Ships

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• A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing [mimes steering wheel]? This steers it'

  Steven Wright

  Feet, Car, Wheels

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• The peculiar fascination which the speeding train has for us comes from the evident progress it is making toward its definite goal ahead.

  Roderick E. Stevens

  Goal, Progress, Fascination

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• Most of my work involves slowing down rather than speeding up. I prefer to look at prints than scans, and I prefer to look at original silver prints rather than digital prints. I prefer to look at fewer images, but spend time with those individual images.

  Michael Kenna

  Looks, Digital, Silver

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.

  Dallas Roberts

  Kids, Gun, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

  Chris Burden

  Stress, Cities, Car

  "Metropolis II: A Kinetic Sculpture That Circulates 100,000 Miniature Cars Every Hour", www.thisiscolossal.com. March 3, 2014.

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• Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Corruption, Relation, Speeding Up

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• At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

  Summer Sanders

  Hurt, May, Marathon

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• We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

  Mick Cornett

  Jobs, Oklahoma City, Cities

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• Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

  Atul Gawande

  Keys, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Annals of Medicine" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. July 29, 2013.

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• He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

  Tim Burton

  Leaving, Nasty, Talent

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• Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass - -a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Book, Fall, Stock Car Racing

  Stephen Dobyns, “Pursuit”

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• In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  James Belushi

  Real, House, Intellectual

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• Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

  Pieter Geyl

  War, History, Process

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• But this is inaccurate. A runaway train is an accident. Me, I'll jump in front of the tracks. I'll even tie myself down in front of the speeding engine. There's some illogical part of me hat still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Ties, Track

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Mean, Attention, Want

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• If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Arrows, Would Be, Steps

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• We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Horse, Fate, Two

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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