Quotes about Speed

As, blind and deaf, the whale plunged forward, as if by sheer power of speed to rid himself of the iron leech that had fastened to him; as we thus tore a white gash in the sea

the ship was rushing through the water with a vindictive sort of leaping and melancholy rapidity

Soon is not as good as now.

The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

He walked with an effortless speed, feeling relaxed by a form of activity that was natural to him.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

flash of silver as the craft streaked laterally

My time is short—what's left of my life races off too fast for me to even glimpse the good. My life is going fast, like a ship under full sail, like an eagle plummeting to its prey.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars