#speed

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

#capable #demonstrating #depend #independence #kosovo

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#doing #first #good #i #injury

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off. ↗

— Alan Davies

#around #bottom #bumps #car #drive

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#does #find #machine #mechanical #million

Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#cameraman #capturing #into #news #phone

What are you doing here, anyway? You don’t strike me as the speed dating type.’ ‘I lost a bet with Alfie,’ he says. ‘You met him at The Cow that day . . .?’ Waistcoat Guy, I think, nodding. ‘I said to him that if you didn’t text me back then I’d try speed dating, because I’m officially the worst single man in London.’ ‘You’re not!’ I say. ‘I mean, it wasn’t a bad date. I was just . . .’ ‘Don’t say you were drunk! It’s the biggest post-sex insult ever.’ ‘. . . drunk, I mean drinking, a bit more than I ought, and I was, uh, cringing at the thought that I’d been a nightmare date.’ ‘No. You were great,’ says Mark/Skinny Jeans. ‘Actually, the biggest post-sex insult is “we did?”’ says Robert. ‘But that’s another story. ↗

— Gemma Burgess

#robert-on-the-phone #speed-dating #dating

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

#could #every #mighty #notion #ocean

There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#corporations #crush #fighting #focused #gold

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. ↗

— Arthur Lydiard

#consider #develop #endurance #everything #fine

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#fastball #games #good #i #i think