Speed Quotes - Page 20

• If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it's fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them, the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Moving, Atoms, Fundamentals

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Space, Energy

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• I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.

  Sammy Hagar

  Home, Men, Egypt

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I've always been kind of a speed demon.

  Sammy Hagar

  Kind, Demon

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I do finally sit down at the typewriter, and write out my plays with a speed that seems to horrify all my detractors and half of my well-wishers, that there's no work involved. It is hard work, and one is doing all the work oneself.

  Edward Albee

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

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• He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

  Blackie Sherrod

  Punishment, Boxing, Needs

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• The city that has speed has success.

  Le Corbusier

  Cities

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

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• Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.

  Doug Rice

  Crazy, Cities, Interesting

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

  Larry Clark

  Amphetamines, Shooting

  "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Team, Creativity, Average

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

  Rafael Nadal

  Player, Hours, Crosses

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Today people hit the ball with much more strength. Almost every player is capable of playing a winning stroke from any position. This means the balls arrive more quickly. If you want to reach them, you have to slow down from a high speed or suddenly change direction. These are moments when you can injure yourself, and that's what wears us out.

  Rafael Nadal

  Mean, Winning, Player

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Law, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Looks, Newton, Lows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the storyboard that we have in the beginning [of Valerian]. It's an easy shot. It's just a spaceship coming in. That's the first layout. On the first layout, we see the timing of the shot and the speed. It starts to get some shadows, and we see that everything is moving in the back.

  Luc Besson

  Moving, Shadow, Firsts

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environmental science at the time, the estimation of the speed at which we see the effects of global warming.

  Bill McKibben

  Wish, Environmental, Global Warming

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

  Alia Shawkat

  Monday, Night, Eight

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Player, Thinking, Car

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• At Milan when I was younger, I worked a lot on the leg press because I'd lost a bit of my natural speed as my body was changing. I was growing too fast for the rest of my body to cope and I had some knee problems. I worked really hard in the gym to regain these fast sprints.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Body, Legs, Knees

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• We are expanding and improving the infrastructure of our relations. You must have heard about China's plans to participate in building a high-speed railway line between Moscow and Kazan in the Volga region, in central Russia. And then we plan to extend it to Kazakhstan and on to China.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Moscow, Lines

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Character, Night, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

  Paul Virilio

  Mean, Research, Revolution

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Light, Today

  Source: ctheory.net

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• As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Doe, World

  Source: ctheory.net

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• As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Long, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

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