Speed Quotes - Page 8

• I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health.

  Noel Coward

  Writing, Boredom, High Speed

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• It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

  Helena Christensen

  Gone, Care, Photograph

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Order, People

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• Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Long Ago, White

  "Obama Extends Lead; Full Speed Ahead for Hillary Clinton: She's Staying in Until the End". "American Morning", www.cnn.com. May 7, 2008.

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• It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strong, Children, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Yoke, Foals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
  Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
  As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
  They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
  The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
  What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
  Flake after flake,
  To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Dark, Lakes

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• Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mouths, Speak

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

  Helen Keller

  Ambition, Pride, Wind Blowing

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• The more haste, the less speed.

  John Heywood

  Patience, Haste

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

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• Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Cities, Knowing

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Goal, Personality

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• The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Two, Years

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam

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• It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

  Homer

  Wish, Doe, Guests

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• Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Fashion, Hot, Avant Garde

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• You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play. If you love the game, play the position you love. Some positions get paid more, but at the end of the day you gotta play the game you love.

  LeSean McCoy

  Games, Play, The End Of The Day

  "Interview: LeSean McCoy Talks Chip Kelly, Kobe Bryant, & Nick Foles' Rap Knowledge". Interview with Maurice Peebles, www.complex.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Ends, Results

  "INTERVIEW: Author Patrick Rothfuss on his Worldbuilders Charity, Writing, Reading and Giving". Interview with Matthew Jackson, nerdbastards.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.

  William J. Mitchell

  Safety, Needs, Sitting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

  Bill Russell

  Regret, Mean, Starting Over

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

  Aaron Belz

  Silly, Watches, Labels

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• when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Views, Should

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

  Carrie Fisher

  Waiting, Looks, Done

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• O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Spring, Lying, Clouds

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• Up, then, with speed, and work;
  Fling ease and self away--
  This is no time for thee to sleep--
  Up, watch, and work, and pray!

  Horatius Bonar

  Sleep, Self, Watches

  Horatius Bonar (1858). “Hymns of Faith and Hope ... Third edition”, p.262

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