Top 100 Raced Quotes

#1. You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up

Neal Stephenson

Raced Quotes #16938
#2. Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

Eliot Ness

Raced Quotes #21915
#3. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

Valentino Rossi

Raced Quotes #31003
#4. Before I could retrieve the bullet off the floor, Helsing jumped down, grabbed it in his mouth, and raced to tuck it under the purple pillow in his bed, where he also kept Gloria's feathers. Then he crouched, glowering, as if daring any of us to take it away. Great. My cat was a hoarder.

A&E Kirk

Raced Quotes #101589
#5. Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like I am Starfishhh!

James Patterson

Raced Quotes #119364
#6. I told myself I would never stop skating. I would never stop riding bikes or riding motorcycles. I raced dirt when I was a kid; motocross. So it definitely keeps me in tune with my youth. I'm almost 40 years old and I feel like I'm 17 years old, and I feel like that's really healthy.

Matt Skiba

Raced Quotes #124190
#7. The millions of words that would flow from his pen over the remainder of his life came in a handwriting that raced across the page in bold, forward-slanting lines, flattened by speed, as if they had no time to spare in reaching their destination.

Adam Hochschild

Raced Quotes #157736
#8. When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio

Raced Quotes #189555
#9. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Gordon Sinclair

Raced Quotes #195710
#10. They say you can never go home again." Bartholomew Quasar leaned back in his deluxe-model captain's chair as the star cruiser raced toward Earth. "But I tend to disagree.

Milo James Fowler

Raced Quotes #208878
#11. Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!

Martha Ostenso

Raced Quotes #217784
#12. I told you I would not forget the gift you bestowed upon me." My heart raced as he leaned in closer. "I am vampire, the walking dead, and yet you saved my life. For this, I will do many things until I feel my debt has been repaid.

K.R. Willis

Raced Quotes #227752
#13. Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.

Liu Xiang

Raced Quotes #243563
#14. My progress reminded me of the horses in The Whip. They raced at the limit of their speed directly toward the audience. But they raced on a treadmill which canceled out their progress.

Tallulah Bankhead

Raced Quotes #249840
#15. Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.

Oscar Wilde

Raced Quotes #253098
#16. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.

Gwynn White

Raced Quotes #255575
#17. Maybe all Cinderellas have fairy godmothers. Mine must have positioned me outside the kitchen so that I could overhear Marcella. I raced up to my room and replaced the books I had taken.

Gita V. Reddy

Raced Quotes #269231
#18. He only kissed her and she kissed him and her knees went weak and her heart raced and she thought for a moment that she saw fireworks.

Charlie Lovett

Raced Quotes #276167
#19. He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

Robert Cormier

Raced Quotes #277837
#20. His mind raced through past horrors experienced first hand and from the accounts of others. He mentally flipped through a grim database which contained everything from vegan flatmates to psychotic pimps.

Irvine Welsh

Raced Quotes #282831
#21. From the very first moment I saw you,
"Hi."
"Hi."
My heart has raced with adrenaline. Stomach full of butterflies and one mind hopelessly full of love.

Hope Alcocer

Raced Quotes #302472
#22. I raced through
Killer Keepsakes and really loved it smart and interesting and entertaining.

Linda Fairstein

Raced Quotes #327417
#23. Desperately, his mind raced as he cried, trying to make time go backward, to do it again differently, to ignore the voices, to keep hold of her hand, to save her.

Terry Goodkind

Raced Quotes #328192
#24. As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

Robin Hobb

Raced Quotes #349187
#25. It was surreal to see such normalcy in the midst of my personal crisis. The horses still raced. The vendors still served food. The world did not stop because I had a brain tumor.

Sally Stap

Raced Quotes #411583
#26. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

Gordon Sinclair

Raced Quotes #421136
#27. I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world.

Maria Semple

Raced Quotes #421867
#28. People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.

Ann Beattie

Raced Quotes #433612
#29. Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Raced Quotes #434136
#30. Once you've raced, you never forget it ... and you never get over it.

Richard Childress

Raced Quotes #436377
#31. After college I picked my races to be one race every two weeks. That gave me time to recover. I raced just as fast as my legs would carry me. At the end of every race there was nothing left. I walked off the track completely spent!

Gerry Lindgren

Raced Quotes #469884
#32. The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

Jackie Stewart

Raced Quotes #474319
#33. Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.

Jack Kerouac

Raced Quotes #475826
#34. How extraordinary," she exclaimed as the horses "raced" across the plank.

Rose Gordon

Raced Quotes #503468
#35. Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Chris Cleave

Raced Quotes #555778
#36. Vegas is definitely a place where we can win. We had a good run here last year, and I feel even more confident about the car we're taking this time. We're taking the car that we raced in California two weeks ago, and it was obviously a good car.

Greg Biffle

Raced Quotes #573709
#37. Seattle is very similar to Minneapolis. I like the culture; I like the people. I raced a bike and won a national championship on Lake Washington in 1977, so I've had a connection there for a long time.

Greg LeMond

Raced Quotes #614737
#38. My body froze and my heart raced, as I let rip with a breathless scream. It felt like I was being stabbed by hundreds of tiny ice daggers, as the filthy surge ran down my legs and flooded my boots. I clung to the ladder, shaking and shivering, all the while cursing the abominable English climate. I

Richard Harrison

Raced Quotes #622644
#39. The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening.

Zora Neale Hurston

Raced Quotes #642446
#40. I want to be in the water with you again, nani girl. Her knees went weak and trembles raced down her spine. Beautiful girl had been a special nickname only he used.

Robin Bielman

Raced Quotes #670706
#41. Sometimes Death lurks after them for days, weeks, or even months, waiting for their time... Sometimes it doesn't, and I've often raced that omnipresent Reaper to one portion of its work.

N.B. Roberts

Raced Quotes #700041
#42. I loved fast driving.Isaiah and I had drag raced all last summer. What I didn't love was a middle-aged nut job who couldn't steer straight.

Katie McGarry

Raced Quotes #704720
#43. Fire would barrel along that chain like a bullet train, he knew. It surged and jumped and gorged itself. It raced like an animal. It ravaged with inhuman efficiency.

Jane Harper

Raced Quotes #730407
#44. I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

John Lasseter

Raced Quotes #736182
#45. About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on.
Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Raced Quotes #791841
#46. I raced alongside the car but they were too far down the road. Brokenheartedly, I roared out in hopelessness and grief. She was gone.#Ren

Colleen Houck

Raced Quotes #803230
#47. Its agents -- not even
human equivalent on this primitive hardware -- raced through the ship's
automation

Vernor Vinge

Raced Quotes #818511
#48. John and Michael raced, Michael getting a start.

J.M. Barrie

Raced Quotes #832610
#49. The girl who'd taken on a Pirate Lord and his entire island, the girl who'd stolen Asterion horses and raced along the beach in the Red Desert, the girl who'd sat on her own rooftop, watching the sun rise over Avery, the girl who'd felt alive with possibility ... that girl was gone.

Sarah J. Maas

Raced Quotes #856905
#50. Becca took the opportunity to say good-bye to Derric by touching his hand. The heart monitor raced suddenly. She looked from it to Rhonda.
Rhonda's expression said what her voice did not. Who are you really and why is my son reacting to the touch of your hand?

Elizabeth George

Raced Quotes #861959
#51. Then out into the spring fields, where a yellow trolley raced them for a minute with people in it who might once have seen the pale magic of her face along the casual street.

Scott Fitzgerald

Raced Quotes #932364
#52. Her pelt prickling with frustration, Hollykit pushed her way through the brambles and raced back to the nursery. She had just discovered how she wanted to serve her Clan, how to make sure that what she did really mattered. She wanted to be the next ThunderClan medicine cat!

Erin Hunter

Raced Quotes #945222
#53. Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.

Mike Bond

Raced Quotes #955093
#54. The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad!

Kenneth Grahame

Raced Quotes #962686
#55. Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

Ian Thorpe

Raced Quotes #1014943
#56. In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark. He couldn't tell if they were having a good time or trying to kill each other.

Tom Perrotta

Raced Quotes #1032952
#57. My dad raced motocross back in the day, and I've always enjoyed watching it. That sport intrigues me.

Virgil Green

Raced Quotes #1074548
#58. I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn't be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

Vivian Vance

Raced Quotes #1093367
#59. I helped with customers who raced through the front door in a mad search for the perfect gift. One that looked as if they'd put hours of thought into their choice. And yes, you're right. They were mostly men.
Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched

Sammi Carter

Raced Quotes #1119497
#60. I'm afraid that if I raced you on the street I'd push you to your death.

Keiichi Tsuchiya

Raced Quotes #1124802
#61. But, what if?
Hadn't we wondered as little girls if we were the only ones with the ability? Were we the only freaks? Were we the abnormal among the normal looking for the abnormal to become the normal?
I raced back to my room.

Michelle Flick

Raced Quotes #1126797
#62. I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Roger Bannister

Raced Quotes #1129717
#63. In the apartment, the answering machine blinked fiercely, two gnats drag-raced around the apparently sweet, rotting hole of the kitchen drain, and life was difficult once again, and familiar, and a disappointment.

Meg Wolitzer

Raced Quotes #1146342
#64. The laird wasn't uppermost on her mind
this morning. Sleep was.
Another giggle raced around the room,
and Mairin realized that once again, she'd
given voice to her thoughts.

Maya Banks

Raced Quotes #1151852
#65. India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

Clark Blaise

Raced Quotes #1151904
#66. As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory, yelled, 'Spare the commons! Kill the lords!' Their words went unheeded.

Alison Weir

Raced Quotes #1165721
#67. Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. "Don't let go.

G.S. Jennsen

Raced Quotes #1185267
#68. Stay here! he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.

Cate Tiernan

Raced Quotes #1188039
#69. I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.

Bob Seger

Raced Quotes #1205020
#70. Blacker than the night, the wedge penetrated the darkness. An F 117 raced by, the roar from its engines screaming through the interior of the chopper, and then it sliced away a piece of sky and disappeared into the void.
-Narrator, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

Daniel P. Douglas

Raced Quotes #1217202
#71. Joey, like an idiot, began clucking and calling to the calf, which only startled it into motion, and it raced off to join its parents.
"Moron," said Avani in a low voice.
"Oh, come on. What's the matter, Canada, did they confiscate your sense of humor at the airport?

Jessica Khoury

Raced Quotes #1217601
#72. He's going to try to take Megan! I shouted, fury filling me and spilling out in the form of the manifestation. I raced down the hill toward the crossroad, the pack of snarling, jingling, horned hell poodles streaming behind me.
Dane and his hell-poodles

Katie MacAlister

Raced Quotes #1225681
#73. Nick was giving me the same look. And this time,instead of being taken aback or feeling squicky about it,my heart raced and my face grew hot. My body's response to the call of Nick.

Jennifer Echols

Raced Quotes #1235363
#74. Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leaders, and he raced horses in the Kentucky Derby - and my mother grew up a debutante. And when she and my dad were married, there were about a thousand guests at that reception.

Christopher Buckley

Raced Quotes #1254957
#75. I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

Taylor Phinney

Raced Quotes #1279187
#76. I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.

Dean Karnazes

Raced Quotes #1287429
#77. Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.

Evan Meekins

Raced Quotes #1295602
#78. Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.

Eveli Acosta

Raced Quotes #1327175
#79. She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

Lisi Harrison

Raced Quotes #1335209
#80. As I raced toward him, I had what can only be described as an out-of-body experience. Even as I ran, I was looking down from above, the scene unfolding one frozen frame at a time. Each step seemed to last an eternity.

Anonymous

Raced Quotes #1335422
#81. I had my own dump truck of bad karma waiting for me somewhere ahwad. I had certainly earned it, but I raced to avoid it if I could; there was no way I wanted to fell that.

Kevin Hearne

Raced Quotes #1345572
#82. My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy ... or so scared.

Ann Aguirre

Raced Quotes #1355386
#83. His head raced with indecision and his heart bled with hurt.

A.E. Via

Raced Quotes #1371291
#84. He's smitten and almost lost her. Like any good prince, he raced to her side to protect her from the lies the wicked Christina is spreading.

Katie Delahanty

Raced Quotes #1379702
#85. Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.

Mario Andretti

Raced Quotes #1414647
#86. Thane gazed down at her, his entire world tipped on its axis. He'd never seen anything more miraculous than what he'd just witnessed. He'd never seen anything so beautiful.
Can I keep you? The words raced through his mind, a thought - and a nearly undeniable compulsion.
Keep you.

Heather Killough-Walden

Raced Quotes #1415148
#87. I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

Clara Hughes

Raced Quotes #1432167
#88. Do better than this, Shazi. My queen is without limitations. Boundless in all that she does. Show them." Her pulse raced

Renee Ahdieh

Raced Quotes #1435491
#89. Ah sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two

Shane MacGowan

Raced Quotes #1457842
#90. Never before had I raced in an angry mood and I couldn't believe how powerful it was. Now I understood why Lance used anger so effectively and why he hated the people he had to beat at the tour.

David Millar

Raced Quotes #1509100
#91. I got wrecked by a dirty driver. There's no other way of putting it. He's cool with that. I have raced him really cool over the last year to be respectful to him and try to repair our relationship. It is not going to last, I can tell you that. Now we've got war.

Brad Keselowski

Raced Quotes #1534085
#92. She's alive, Alaric. She was wounded, but it was minor," Alexios said, a rough compassion in his voice. A strange weakness raced through Alaric and he had to fight his own lungs to draw breath. Quinn was wounded. "How minor?" he snarled. "Tell me, now.

Alyssa Day

Raced Quotes #1549986
#93. Chills raced down

B.J. Robinson

Raced Quotes #1553935
#94. Wrong. This was wrong. A list of words raced through his head. Apostate, heretic, pagan.
Witch.

Laura Oliva

Raced Quotes #1553999
#95. I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

Jan Karon

Raced Quotes #1556126
#96. Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

Nigel Mansell

Raced Quotes #1563683
#97. Bildon killed Tad. Look, there's his dagger hidden in the pot of semolina. There's the proof," he screamed. "It's in the pudding."

What an idiot, thought Madrick as he raced up the steps, the proof is always in the eating.

Ken Magee

Raced Quotes #1569789
#98. I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

Michael Sims

Raced Quotes #1582185
#99. As they entered the camp, Lionpaw raced to meet them. "Wow!" He stared at Bluepaw's bloodied ear. "Does it hurt?" "A little," Bluepaw lied. It stung like fury.

Erin Hunter

Raced Quotes #1586447
#100. I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

Sebastian Coe

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