Speed Quotes - Page 26

• Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

  Apolo Ohno

  Running, Littles, Skater

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• With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

  Apolo Ohno

  Skating, Weight, Legs

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• I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car!

  Apolo Ohno

  Athlete, Bmw, Tunnels

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• This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

  Yoko Ono

  Frustration, Reality, Men

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• To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits of worldwide chitchat; it's in a big, bland office building in downtown San Francisco, near a bowling alley and an Old Navy.

  Susan Orlean

  San Francisco, Office, Navy

  "Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  Walter Payton

  Senior, Running, Cutting

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• America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Country, Usa, America

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

  Keanu Reeves

  Running, Fighting, Jumping

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• I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

  Kid Rock

  Couple, Book, Mark

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• In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny Love, Heart, Men

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• If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

  Salman Rushdie

  Cities, Want, Slow Down

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• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Long, News

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.

  Jerry Saltz

  Light, Water Lily, Giving

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• You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

  Liev Schreiber

  Eye, Hockey, Hands

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• Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

  Martin Scorsese

  Ideas, Flying, Visionaries

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• I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

  Garry Shandling

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, War, Rocks

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Airplane, Pilots

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• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  Nate Silver

  Curves, Playing Games, Kind

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• Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

  Jane Smiley

  Dark, Narrative, Firsts

  "The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

  Layne Staley

  New York, Pops, Metals

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• We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Depth, Our Society, Information

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Mediums

  "Taylor Swift on Love, Fame, Bad Boys, and Living in the Public Eye 20, 2012". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. November 20, 2012.

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• The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fire, Flames, May

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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