#speed

Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. "Slow" works in an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower. ↗

— Richard Russo

#slow #speed #life

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do. ↗

— Carol Alt

#fast #i #seen #speed

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#become #change #makes #speed #will

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#i #i am #reader #speed

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#everybody #everybody else #full #get #i

The train we had so confidently boarded had been speeding at almost 100 miles an hour and it had derailed. Someone, I can't remember who, showed me a newspaper photograph of the carriage we had been sitting in tilted on its side on a station platform next to a large notice that said Welcome to Potters Bar. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#bar #been #carriage #confidently #had

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

You lose the speed before the stamina. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#lose #speed #stamina #you

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. ↗

— Richard Branson

#balloon #brick #brick wall #force #found

If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#buzzing #continuously #equivalent #good #having