Speeded Quotes

#1. I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

Geoff Dyer

#2. I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

David Bowie

#3. If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

William Carey

#4. The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

Keith Miller

#5. He couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years.

Christopher Isherwood

#6. Television speeded everything up.

Ruth Handler

#7. But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

David Blunkett

#8. Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

David Crystal

#9. The new companies often put the old ones out of business; the young were forever eating the old. The whole of the Valley was a speeded-up Oedipal drama. In this drama technology played a very clear role. It was the murder weapon.

Michael Lewis

#10. I keep life filled and speeded up so that I can cheat myself into believing that I am happy and contented, but oh! When night comes and I go to bed and turn out the lights, I lie there in the dark, I realize the absolute futility of trying to kid myself.

Margaret Mitchell

#11. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

Tom Sutton

#12. Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Malcolm De Chazal

#13. If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch.

Loren Eiseley

#14. Each egg hatched a different way, but a crack at the right time speeded things up.

Anne McCaffrey

#15. Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Edwin Way Teale

#16. Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#17. We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

R.D. Laing

#18. Either the present part of the story slowed down a bit and waited for the past part to catch up, or the past part speeded up and overtook the present part. (We

A.C. Weisbecker

#19. Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.

Donald A. Wollheim

#20. There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

John Pilger

#21. Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#22. All is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself, cannot be realized by you. The promise is

Neville Goddard

#23. You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.

Jill Paice

#24. You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open two jars. I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars. And who knows how many knives!

Brian Regan

#25. I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.

A.B. Potts

#26. Even if one turns away from harmony for just one night, suffering ensues.

I.J. Parker

#27. Tigerclaw stared in disbelief. Was the life of his son dependent on an ancient medicine cat and an arrogant kittypet?

Erin Hunter

#28. Bluh-huh-huh Minho groaned, a shudder of repulsion, like he'd just stepped in a pile of klunk.

James Dashner

#29. Only he who asks the question, will be able to hear the answer.

Ali Ezzat Bigovich

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

Steven Magee

#31. It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Robert Byrd