America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
—Laurence J. Peter
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…would you slow down? Or speed up?
—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
—W. Somerset Maugham
My hypersensitive awareness of time's speed led me to push myself to experience life at a maximum pace. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes fifteen minutes is all it takes for your entire life to change.
—Bella Andre in It Must Be Your Love
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
—Steven Wright
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
—Jackie Kennedy
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
—Carl von Clausewitz
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
—William James
Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.
—Courtney Summers in Some Girls Are
When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed . . . Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.
—Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
—Arthur C. Clarke
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
—Soren Kierkegaard
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
—Woody Allen