When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

The fastest way to travel is to be already there.

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news.

I foresee the time when human beings, having ceased to regard speed as a novelty, will lose much of their taste for it.

In skating over thin ice it is our speed that saves us.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

The day started off, as all mine do, at a snail's pace.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.