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High Speed Quotes

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.
- Banksy

While the egg yolks cooled, he directed the beaters at the egg whites, setting the mixer on high speed that sent small bubbles giggling to the side of the bowl, where a few became many until they were a white froth rising up and then lying down again in patters and ridges, leaving an intricate design like the ribs of a leaf in the wake of the beaters
- Erica Bauermeister

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.
- Corrine Brown

(A boat in lake.) I was afraid it would turn over at high speed.
Dreams less and less interesting.
- William S Burroughs

There was only one road back to L.A. - U.S. Interstate 15. Just a flat-out high speed burn through Baker and Barstow and Berdoo. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, and straight on into frantic oblivion. Safety. Obscurity.
- Hunter S Thompson

If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out.
- Tom Robbins

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.
- Robert Edison Fulton Jr

Courage comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to run at high speeds while wearing adult diapers.
- Jarod Kintz

Large metal objects moving at high speeds have such an impact on me that I just get paralyzed. Honk if you're horny, and find men in wheelchairs sexy.
- Jarod Kintz

Salander assessed the situation and saw that it was anything but under control. Her brain was working at high speed. Click, click, click.
- Stieg Larsson

One way to get high speed to the home is over cable systems.
- Jon Postel

The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique." (describing a young man who flew off a bicycle at high speed)
- Neal Stephenson

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.
- Sebastian Vettel

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