Speed Quotes - Page 39

• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

  Stephen Fry

  Baby, Sorry, Breathing Life

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• I dont 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

  Travel, Journey, Car

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• Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

  Richard Dawkins

  Order, Brain, Size

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• That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

  Joan Bennett

  Beautiful, Father, Childhood

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• I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

  Demetri Martin

  Home, Machines, Time Machine

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• I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

  Roger Maris

  Player, Arms, Feels

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• I was banging seven-gram rocks...because that's how I roll. I have one speed. I have one gear. Go.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Rocks, Blood

  "Charlie Sheen on Past Drug Use, CBS Fallout" by Andrea Canning, Lauren Sher, abcnews.go.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

  Keanu Reeves

  Water, Come Up, Felt

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• When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Commitment, Matter, Steps

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• The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Intellectual, Together

  "Crowdfunder: Why Penn Jillette Hopes to Be the Anti-Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

  Bruce Lee

  Power, Endurance, Lost

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• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Power, Important

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.119, Tuttle Publishing

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• The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.

  Bruce Lee

  Strong, Athlete, Power

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.

  Demi Lovato

  Crazy, Two, Forever

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• It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

  Carol Kane

  Emotional, Creative, Achieve

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• I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.

  Suzanne Somers

  Reading, Talking, Starting Over

  "A Conversation with Suzanne Somers". Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• The observer and the universe are part of the same universe. It's what science discovered at the beginning of this century, when they say you can't tell where an atomic particle is. You know where they are, but not their speed; or you know their speed but not their place, because it depends on you. The one who describes is part of the description.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Century, Description, Particles

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• I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasnt worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

  Jason Patric

  Kind, Boring, Wanted

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• Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

  Larry Holmes

  Moving, Hands, Missing

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

  Andy Roddick

  Player, Able, Lists

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• I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

  Jorie Graham

  Moving, Philosophical, Emotional

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• Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

  Beth Kephart

  Song, Giving, Body

  Beth Kephart (2007). “Undercover”, HarperTeen

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• I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

  Pete Rose

  White, Guy, White Guys

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