#speed

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. ↗

— David Bowie

#cliches #god #hell #i #life

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#administration #anything #cannot #china #europe

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

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

#becomes #bit #car #cars #fun

Life's picking up speed. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#picking #speed #up

It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#important #important contribution #make #most #reunification

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. ↗

— James Buchan

#assertive #commodities #crude #crude oil #dictation

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car. ↗

— Jenson Button

#because #buzz #car #driving #enough

As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys. ↗

— Michael Chang

#agility #athlete #big #big guys #go

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#everything #eyes #fix #make #perfection