Quotes About Speed Up

#1. My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

Carl Crawford

#2. I'm wondering if you can speed this story up a bit," Ms. Jordan said. "I spilled pudding on Missy Trillin's head while she was taking a pee." "I see." Ms. Jordan nodded. "Now I think we're getting somewhere.

James Patterson

#3. German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#4. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?

Liz Weber

#5. If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Siegfried Sassoon

#6. Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

Esther Hicks

#7. For Tozer, entertainment was simply the Church synchronizing with the world and succumbing to it. It was utter nonsense to him that the Church wanted to bring itself "up to speed" with the world around it. A worldly church was, in Tozer's thinking, an oxymoron and completely anathema.

A.W. Tozer

#8. Every 17 seconds a child dies on this planet from no clean drinking water. Good. Let's try to speed it up ... there are too many people.

Doug Stanhope

#9. Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away
This is no time for thee to sleep
Up, watch, and work, and pray!

Horatius Bonar

#10. With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.

Aaron Gwin

#11. Contrary to popular belief, most detectives couldn't detect a heartbeat on a speed addict, but you never know when you might be up against the next Ellery Queen.

Simon Kernick

#12. I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it up a little, else either I shall die on the job, or you will be worn out reading.

Robert Harris

#13. Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Terry Bradshaw

#14. 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

#15. Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.

LL Cool J

#16. To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

D. James Kennedy

#17. If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards

Fred Hoiberg

#18. Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him.

Erik Bundy

#19. You can either delay or speed up the inevitable; but you cannot prevent it from staying the course.

Joan Ambu

#20. Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

Stephen Covey

#21. My nails clawed against the smooth tiles as I pushed up onto my hands and knees. I rose unsteadily to my feet.
Speed is my ally. Breathe. In and out. Focus. Time is my power.

Lori M. Lee

#22. We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country.

Patrick L.O. Lumumba

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

Keanu Reeves

#24. The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

Idi Amin

#25. You had to give credit to anyone who managed to excel at their chosen pastime, be it golf, hang-gliding or hoovering up cocaine with the speed and efficacy of a Dyson Turbo.

Jamie Holoran

#26. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Dan Rather

#27. Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows what it is. How much time is there in a day? Not how many hours, minutes, seconds: how much TIME do we have?
This day?

David Mitchell

#28. The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#29. I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution.

Bill Hicks

#30. He's an even-tempered stallion. What he lacks in stamina he makes up for in speed, kind of like most of the men I've slept with.

Lila Shaw

#31. Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.

Jacques Lemaire

#32. California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#33. Runners who attend a yoga class the day after a marathon are often amazed at the speed of their recovery; they are able to go up and down the stairs without pain and stiffness in short order.

Christine Felstead

#34. White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Billy Gibbons

#35. That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.

Felix Baumgartner

#36. If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

James Stewart

#37. The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

Dan Buettner

#38. If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else.

Bill Nye

#39. He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

David Levithan

#40. If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character ... Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

#41. Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There's a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there's also a cure.

George Saunders

#42. Sometimes during my set I invite volunteers up on stage to get speed-roasted and I'm worried that I may have hundreds of people rushing the stage all at once. Luckily I'm a black belt in karate and I can fend them off.

Jeff Ross

#43. I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.

Brittany Bowe

#44. We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

Michael Oxley

#45. According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

George Saunders

#46. The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent's car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn't let anything hurt me.
He wasn't singing, though,I mused.Shouldn't he be singing?

Kim Harrison

#47. Toffs could get up to speed. But Ben at least knew roughly

John Cleese

#48. In a sense, the market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later. Expectations speed up future price reactions.

Murray Rothbard

#49. Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.

Steven Magee

#50. My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

Erykah Badu

#51. The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L

Laurie Nadel

#52. You can't recapture your past anymore than you can speed up your future. Stop lamenting summer and stop trying to hurry winter. Just enjoy the fall.

Debbie Viguie

#53. Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a mental and physical funk. Pick a downhill stretch if you can, and really lengthen your stride.

Mark Plaatjes

#54. The rest of them moved toward the fence, in complete silence. Each of the teenagers jumped swiftly onto the iron spikes. With a blurry speed, they climbed up onto the sharp finials, and leaped down to the other side

A.O. Peart

#55. Cheetahs are the fastest runners on earth, and can get up to speeds of around 96 kilometres an hour! It can pick up speed from 0 kilometres an hour to 96 kilometres an hour, within three seconds.

Lilly Carle

#56. It might seem like an unlikely pairing, but APIs and BD have a critical relationship. APIs help speed up partnerships between two companies. They give developers the ability to grab functionality and/or build upon the platform, therefore making a partnership easier to execute.

Alexander Taub

#57. Things speed up as you circle the drain.
Armistead Maupin on ageing

Armistead Maupin

#58. Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#59. I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.

Gayle King

#60. For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

Jean Paul

#61. With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

Gail Sheehy

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

LeBron James

#63. You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

George Carlin

#64. We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Umberto Eco

#65. The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

Emma Caulfield

#66. I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Bob Newhart

#67. He's moving with such purpose that William is scared he might just speed right off the rooftop, like the roadrunner from the cartoons. Or (the image comes with Magritteish lucidity) spread his arms and flap up into another life.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#68. Sally didn't waste any time getting Prentice up to speed. Mister Mikey says we can call Mrs. Evangahlala, Miss Bella and I'm doing the crunchy and smushy bits for dinner.

Kristen Ashley

#69. You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

Joe Bradley

#70. Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Charles M. Schulz

#71. Does speed dating necessarily end up in a quickie divorce ... ?

Josh Stern

#72. In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

Elizabeth McCracken

#73. I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

Janet Evanovich

#74. Why speed life up? There is so precious little of it.

Mark Andrew Poe

#75. My speed is something that has made a difference to my whole career. When I've felt quick and I'm moving well, it makes a huge difference to my entire game. When I feel a bit slower, I end up doing a lot more defending. When I'm a bit quicker to the ball, I feel I can attack a lot more.

Andy Murray

#76. O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

Kenneth Grahame

#77. I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.

Mark Hamill

#78. We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something ... because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.

Chris Anderson

#79. When you see an obstacle approaching, grab your courage and speed up.

Angela Lynne Craig

#80. As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.

Alan Alda

#81. That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.

Brian Joyce

#82. Blew up? How?' 'We dropped a shielded runcible gate into it while the gate at the other end was moved into position before a stream of near-light-speed asteroids flung out from a spinning black hole.

Neal Asher

#83. I told you that in confidence."

She shrugged. "And then I told Molly and Rosie in confidence too. So now I'm confident we're all up to speed.

R.S. Grey

#84. (On his Emmy nomination) I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.

Will Arnett

#85. As the engine warmed up to speed, I glanced down at my steadily rising jeans. And, in all honesty, I was ready.

Scott Hildreth

#86. Run!" Piper said.
"We are running!" Jason picked up the speed.
"Run better!" Leo shouted.

Rick Riordan

#87. The present catches up to the future with alarming speed - I had forgotten that.

Lena Coakley

#88. The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

John P. Kotter

#89. He smiled, a little smile, but the sight of it made my breathing speed up. I've always needed you. For my entire life,' I said in a whisper,'and I'm always going to need you.

Sarah Alderson

#90. Cities at daybreak are no one's,
and have no names.
And I, too, have no name,
dawn, the stars growing pale,
the train picking up speed.

Adam Zagajewski

#91. The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

Richard Branson

#92. You will speed up your growth by being selfish. So imagine that the people you're looking at can actually take care of themselves. And if you ask for what you want and trust that the other person will say yes or no powerfully, it will make things very interesting.

Neil Strauss

#93. To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

Edward Hoagland

#94. Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Robert M. Pirsig

#95. But that's one advantage of fiction, you can speed up time.

Julian Barnes

#96. The reality of your own nature should determine your speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become tense and high-strung, slow down.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#97. I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

Adrian Peterson

#98. I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

Jay Kay

#99. We're sprinting at the speed of light when the ground gives way and we rise into the air as if racing up stairs.

Jandy Nelson

#100. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Ellen DeGeneres