Speed Quotes - Page 30

• It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

  Joe Hill

  Impact, Ignorant, Finals

  Joe Hill (2010). “Horns”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent’s car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn’t let anything hurt me. He wasn’t singing, though,I mused.Shouldn’t he be singing?

  Kim Harrison

  Hurt, Car, Singing

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• We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Believe, Blind

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

  Lorrie Moore

  Giving Up, Lovers, Classic

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• Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bullshit, Smoking, Limits

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

  Eddie Izzard

  Two, Brain, Language

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• The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Blind Spots, Car

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, People, Training

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

  Sara Zarr

  Buttons, Want, Faces

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• and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.

  Frank O'Hara

  Armor, World

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.217, Univ of California Press

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• In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Boredom, News, Towns

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• Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet." "You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps you could bring me up to speed on those modern courtship rituals." I sat there stunned until he gave me a glimpse of a smile-just enough to let me know he was teasing. Then he disappeared. "Oh, very funny!" I yelled.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Glimpse, Next

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• There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.

  Kate Morton

  Anchors, Opposites, Two

  Kate Morton (2009). “The House at Riverton: A Novel”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?

  John Ashbery

  Night, Giving, Desert

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.1, Ardent Media

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• I frowned. “You mean Set’s got, like, other evil gods on speed dial?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Evil, Evil God

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• driving at the speed limit--hideous thought.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Limits, Driving, Hideous

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• i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Winning, Past

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• She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn’t the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.’ (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Ferrari, Calm

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

  David Mitchell

  Night, Men, Evening

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• Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Fire, Different

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Arrows, Three, Tongue

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Definitions, Faces

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.

  Tamora Pierce

  Scare, Majesty, Glare

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.439, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

  Neal Stephenson

  Add, Saws, Idiot

  Neal Stephenson (2009). “Cryptonomicon”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it.

  Douglas Adams

  Air, Wind, Wings

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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