Sped Quotes:

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

- John Dryden

topic: Firsts, Fame, Sped

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

- Nellie Bly

topic: Funny, Farewell, Sight, Sped

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

- Aeschylus

source: Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Moving, Light, Golden, Sped

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

- Ted Chiang

source: Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Sped, Spoken Word

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.90

topic: Sweet, Morning, Time, Sped

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

- George Barr McCutcheon

source: George Barr McCutcheon (2013). “The George Barr McCutcheon MEGAPACK ®: 25 Classic Novels and Stories”, p.1476, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Men, Chicago, Doorways, Sped

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

- Mitch Daniels

topic: Jobs, Believe, Recovery, Sped, Borrowed

At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze; While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

topic: Children, Home, Night, Sped, Returning Home

I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

- Wallace Stegner

source: Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

topic: Heart, Rivers, Glasses, Sped, White Water

He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and sped down the path. He heard the others call out behind him, but he ignored them. He was sure Karl and Johan and the others would have searched the rosebush and that entire are carefully enough; there was nothing to learn there. But he wanted to get to the hunting lodge, to find Prince Grigori and punch him in the nose for losing Petunia, and then make certain that her sisters were alright. And then her would find Petunia, and he would bring her home.

- Jessica Day George

topic: Horse, Home, Hunting, Sped, Petunias

We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.

- Lance Armstrong

source: Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.159, Random House

topic: Strong, Race, Would Be, Sped

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

- Mona Kuhn

topic: Photography, Discovery, Self, Sped, Digital Photography

It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something." And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge." And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.

- Robert Penn Warren

topic: Night, Men, Judging, Sped, Shrouds

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Wall, Pain, Heart, Sped, Old Music

Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Rain, Fall, Blow, Sped, Misty

And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

- Jessica Maxwell

topic: Lakes, Sea, Fishing, Sped, Biomass

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

topic: Kindness, Sea, Land, Sped, Land And Sea

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

- Frederick Locker-Lampson

source: Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.188

topic: Disappointment, Faces, Youth, Sped

There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.

- Alec Sulkin

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Horse, Gay, Black And White, Sped

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

topic: Appreciation, Grief, Mind, Sped

For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing the thing. I rented it from Blockbuster and sped to that scene, and it was gone. I called up Blockbuster, and I'm like, "I got an erection, and the scene's not there."

- Louis C. K.

topic: Funny, Girl, Years, Sped, Lieutenants

Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.

- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

topic: Mean, Grace, Important, Sped, Adornment

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Cameras, World, Information, Sped

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

- Stephen Crane

topic: Lying, Men, Saws, Sped

Those two pilots that sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination have been suspended. They got suspended because they were looking at their laptops instead of flying the plane. Think about this -- everybody else on the plane has to turn off their laptops except for the people flying the plane.

- Jay Leno

topic: Past, Thinking, Two, Minneapolis, Sped

If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

- William John Locke

source: William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

topic: Dream, Blood, Tears, Sped, Too Deep

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

- Will Eisner

topic: Rivers, Secret, Curiosity, Sped

the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1836). “Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice: der Kaufmann von Venedig ... mit untergelegtem kritischen commentare, einer einleitung und einem anhang, enthaltend”, p.60

topic: Kissing, Fire, Wife, Sped, Shadow Kiss

But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

- Steve Almond

source: Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

topic: Distance, Dirty, Fog, Sped, Acknowledgment

I use an Electrix repeater [for live looping]. It works...it's unstable and the MIDI implementation was written by a sped. I think it's Canadian but that may be a coincidence. I've been through all sorts, the original jam man was great but clicked on the loop if you didn't get it just right, something I am familiar with. As I said in another answer I have an RC50 but haven't fired it up yet. On paper it looks great.

- Robin Guthrie

topic: Men, Thinking, Use, Sped, Midi

"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like a deer he sprang away. Through the trees he sped. On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The woods about the lake they left behind. Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.293, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Sunset, Dark, Men, Sped, Slopes

He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Healing, Hair, Wind, Sped, Pedals

Under his spurning feet, the road Like an arrowly alpine river flowed And the landscape sped away behind Like an ocean flying before the wind....

- Thomas Buchanan Read

topic: Ocean, Wind, Rivers, Sped, Alpine

Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Eye, Men, Dust, Sped, Stiff Neck

They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' "Did you see that?" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. "Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend." "Annabeth," Frank said. "You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter?" Percy frowned. "No. Before that.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Girlfriend, Sunset, Mean, Sped, Lounging