A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.
I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.
I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.
I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing.
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.
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.
Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them?
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
I believe my speed begins when I round first base.
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
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.
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.