Travel Speed Quotes

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

The only thing to be said for air travel is speed. It makes possible travel on a scale unimaginable before our present age. Between the ages of 20 and four-score I visited every country in Europe, all save two in Latin America, ditto in Africa, and most of Asia, not counting eight trips to Australia and 60 to the United States - all by air.

I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.

Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make only a dreamy, bewildering, swirling blur, most of which is unrememberable.

The security appeared so great that I wish for one sincerely, to travel in, as instead of 10 days, I should be within 5 hours of home.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.