Quotes tagged ‘speed’

“Bud: The guys that make it are the guys that get in their cars at any time. Get in at 3 AM, get up at 4. That's why there ain’t a repo man I know that don't take speed. Otto: Speed, huh? Bud: [snorts line of speed] Jesus Christ! Otto: [watches, grinning] He-he.”

— Alex Cox, Bud, Harry Dean Stanton, imdb.com

“I have seen people speed and shrink and fly. We watched a friend of ours come back from the dead. That is the world we live in now, and I will not stop searching it until we find a way to make you walk again.”

— Emilio Ortega Aldrich, Brian Ford Sullivan, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com

“Ricky Bobby: I'm going fast again! Cal Naughton, Jr.: How fast is he going? Lucius Washington: 26 miles per hour.”

— Will Ferrell, Lucius Washington, Michael Clarke Duncan, imdb.com

“Morpheus: We've survived by hiding from them, by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys. Which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them. Neo: Someone? Morpheus: I've seen an agent punch through a concr…”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com

“Sharona Fleming: What are you doing? Adrian Monk: I'm running circles around you. That's how fast I am.”

— Mitch Markowitz, Adrian Monk , Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com

“Seth: I'm going 70 in a 65 zone. Summer: 80 is the new 70. Seth: What? Who talks like that? Summer: Who gets passed by a van full of nuns? Oh, wait, Cohen does! Seth: Well they have God on their side, Summer, okay. I'm not gonna beat Jesus. Summer: I'm gonna call Holly and see how far ahead of us th…”

— Josh Schwartz, Summer Roberts, Rachel Bilson, imdb.com

“Oscar Madison: Your name is Homer? [Shocked upon hearing Speed's real name from the guard] Speed: [Sarcastically] What? You think when I was born my parents named me SPEED?”

— Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield, Oscar Madison, Jack Klugman, imdb.com

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgement; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer, but is even richer.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, perseus.tufts.edu

“Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.”

— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com

“I've a great fear of speed bumps.. but I'm slowly getting over it.”

— plutonium-239, reddit.com

“"They're like. Alright, why did you stop at a red light And let me hit you doing 80?! WHY DID YOU STOP AT A RED LIGHT?"”

— Dane Cook, genius.com

“Hey, that could be the story of my life--no brakes.”

— Etta James, amazon.com

“Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com

“Don't go too fast. This makes no sense to me, because a guy will stick his dick in you and pump you like its a race to create a new world record for thrusts per second, but he won’t like it when you wank him off at the same speed.”

— Kat George, thoughtcatalog.com

“One of the most obvious signs he misses you is when he answers all your text messages instantly! You fire away your SMS and within seconds you got a reply, as if he was staring his iPhone waiting all day for you to text him.”

— Hellen Randle, lovedatingdoc.com

“He talks slowwwly. Like birds in a mating dance, men typically talk more slowly and softly when they are attracted to someone”

— Chelsea Kaplan, match.com

“He'll walk at the same pace as you. It's a fact that men generally walk faster than women (it has to do with mass and limb length), but studies show that men actually slow down when they're walking with someone they love. They do this because they want to keep the same pace as their partner.”

— Jessica Booth, gurl.com

“Text him back within 24 hours. Anything beyond that reads "I'm just not that into you—or your texts.”

— Olivia Baniuszewicz, glamour.com

“Don’t go too fast. It may seem exciting to bounce off him really fast, but you’ll get tired really fast. And most importantly, you’ll ruin the sex.”

— Kayla Kissinger, lovepanky.com

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi, gurteen.com