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.
My first film as an actor was ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High,’ a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it’s not already gone.
When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
You don’t want to have a fast career for two years. You want to have an amazing career for 20 years.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don’t hardly ever notice that I’m working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
If you run from a bear, it’ll chase you. And they can run fast.
With ‘California,’ editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn’t believe it!
I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, ‘Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It’s sobering.
I drive relatively fast – within the remits of the law, obviously – but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them.
I don’t know why I run so fast. I just run.
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
My friends call me a ‘pace-setter.’ Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers’ market, it’s already been investigated.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn’t move as fast as I’d like it to move.
Slow down, everyone. You’re moving too fast.
Lifting weights is obviously important, because you want to be strong and fast and all of that, but it’s not one of those things you gotta go and try to bench as much as you can every day. A bench press isn’t going to help you throw a 15-yard out or a deep comeback. It’s not about that. It’s about training right.
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That’s my release.
Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
It’s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we’ve designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can’t really do that fast.
I don’t know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
There is no such thing as a low risk lap in Monaco. It doesn’t exist if you want to be fast, because you have to be on the limit.
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Everything’s changing so fast that it’s sometimes hard to keep up.
They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn’t give it up for anything in the world. It won’t last forever, either. But the memories will.
When you’re a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.
Success is not usually easy or fast.
I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.
Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan… ’cause I’d never seen a train that fast in my life.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.
I don’t believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
I’m a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that’s what I write about.
Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.
For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
I type even faster than I talk. I’m very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I’ve got to keep up with them. It’s a miracle they even give me a royalty.
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
I learn fast and I take note of what I’ve been told.
Those who spend too fast never grow rich.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast – I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I don’t talk.
When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.
The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don’t know if it’s getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don’t entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man’s life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.
If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.
The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that’s where a Formula One car is at its best – changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.
Things take a long time, but when it’s right things move fast.
I did an episode on the TV show ‘Awake,’ and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s really hard.’ To do that so fast and to do that, if it’s very successful, for nine months out of the year, for a bunch of good years, that’s challenging. But, it was interesting. It’s a good show. You’d have to have a very good character, I guess.