Top Speed Quotes

#1. When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

Ed Begley Jr.

#3. Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

Sebastian Vettel

#4. Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

W. Clement Stone

#5. Hermione recited at top speed: "Golpalott's-Third-Law-states-that-the-antidote-for-a-blended-poison-will-be-equal-to-more-than-the-sum-of-the-antidotes-for-each-of-the-separate-components.

J.K. Rowling

#6. There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

George Jones

#7. She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn't the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.' (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.

Lemony Snicket

#9. I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single ... and tell you, it's not gonna sell ... that's what the label does.

Ray Lamontagne

#11. I like the sprints so much because it's very explosive, very aggressive, and quite physical sometimes as well. On top of that you've got the speed, so it's a big adrenaline rush coming into the sprints all the time. I love that bit!

Magnus Backstedt

#12. It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Timothy Ferriss

#13. He could not show his feelings. People told him he was unemotional: but he knew he was at the mercy of his emotions: an accidental kindness touched him so much that sometimes he did not venture to speak in order not to betray the unsteadiness of his will

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.

Dr. Seuss

#15. I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Maggie Young

#16. Roan looked at Paris and wondered where they would go from here and if there would be any light at the end of the tunnel before it collapsed on top of them. Too bad there was really no such thing as a happy ending.

Andrea Speed

#17. Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

Jack Welch

#18. No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.

Virgil

#19. Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

Joe Rogan

#20. The guard, clearly overdoing it with the steroids, had a head that looked like two old crisps taped to an Easter egg. There

Paul Mitchell

#21. The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

John William Draper

#22. The nurses deem the e-reader to be more sanitary than a paper book.

Gabrielle Zevin

#23. Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

Herbie Brennan

#24. I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.

Manny Pacquiao

#25. It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Deborah Bull

#26. Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone.

Doug Stanhope

#27. Unfortunately, this world is full of people who are ready to think the worst when they see a man sneaking out of the wrong bedroom in the middle of the night.

Will Cuppy

#28. We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

#29. Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

Daniel Goleman

#30. Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

Sally Helgesen

#31. When he's at the top of his game, there's not a team in the world that can handle Giggs' speed and penetration

Alex Ferguson

#32. The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Samuel Eto'o