Speeded Up Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Steven Magee

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Anne McCaffrey

#10. 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

#11. Practice. It's not about perfect, it's about practice.

Christine Haggerty

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

Malcolm De Chazal

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

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#14. We should listen, study, think, reflect, and ponder the Scriptures until there is an answering response in our hearts and minds. It may be one of shame or of joy or of confusion or of appeal - but that response to God's speech is then truly prayer and should be given to God.

Timothy J. Keller

#15. You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.

Lisa Cach

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

David Crystal

#20. I shall dance all my life ... I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

Josephine Baker

#21. E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

J.G. Ballard

#22. he had kindness where other people had lungs,

Katherine Rundell

#23. Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

Bob Dylan

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

David Blunkett

#25. Vegetables ... a waste of good plate space

Mark Hoppus

#26. Television speeded everything up.

Ruth Handler

#27. In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival.
Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

Ka

#28. If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

Anais Nin

#29. But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.

Nathan Filer

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

David Bowie