Quotes About Speeding Time

#1. You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.

Daniel Nayeri

#2. Time snapped and Hagerty found himself speeding toward the woman in the straitjacket. Grabbing her by the shoulders, he pulled her off the corpse and held her at arm's length. He caught a glimpse of Kalish's face and the shredded mess where his throat should have been.

Nancy A. Collins

#3. It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#6. I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

Marina Abramovic

#7. Time has this way of slowing down and speeding up,depending on how it feels.

Carol Lynch Williams

#8. Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Jillian Michaels

#9. A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle for anything less.

Martha Graham

#10. One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

Louis L'Amour

#11. We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

Paul Hawken

#12. Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

George Lucas

#13. Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people.

Sylvia Plath

#14. Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.

Ted Nugent

#15. Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day ...

Mary Downing Hahn

#16. The end of our relationship with Satan is coming at you like a speeding locomotive, and before you know it, you will be in the time of the End, deciding whether to take the Mark of the Beast or not! Friends, its not that far away!

Peter Bellone

#17. It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.

Nic Sheff

#18. If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

Danny Brown

#20. Sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen

Candace Bushnell

#21. The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

Rajneesh

#22. Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

Dean Cavanagh

#23. Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Marshall McLuhan

#24. In the case of Comcast, we're taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don't need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it's all speeding up.

Brian L. Roberts

#25. I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding

Dave Matthews

#26. She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt.

Chris Kurtz

#27. People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

Jordana Brewster

#28. I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Dwight L. Moody

#29. I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

Jennifer Tilly

#30. 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

#31. Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

C.S. Lewis

#32. In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

Margaret Mead

#33. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.

Sanober Khan