Race Against Time Quotes

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

When I was told that I was doing a movie called 'Lola Rennt,' I was like, 'What?' I didn't get it, or the title. I started reading the script, and I still couldn't fathom that it was about a person named Lola running. Before my agent explained it to me, I couldn't even make any sense out of it.

To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

Me racist? The only race I hate is the one you have to run.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

The terrorists are racing and we are moving at somewhere between a walk and a crawl, depending on the day of the week.

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'

If you botch a handoff or stutter step in a relay, then your team has to make up that lost time. It's always you versus the clock.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .