Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It’s a robust grain that, if overcooked, won’t collapse but will become more tender. – Yotam Ottolenghi
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. – Twyla Tharp
I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I’d pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate. – Stan Musial
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. – William Ellery Channing
It’s Obama’s bad luck that he got elected just as the mayhem of the foreclosures, the banking collapse, and the General Motors disaster was accelerating the surge in unemployment to warp speed. – Tina Brown
I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I’m doing. Just take the swing and don’t muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me. – Tony Gwynn
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts. – Zack Wheat
Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference. – Ty Cobb
Finally, I have to say that the most surprising aspect has been the speed at which the folks in India adapt to Western practices. They learn fast, really, really fast. – Sanjay Kumar
We have to keep up our guard. We won’t get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility. – Tom Frieden
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is. – Wilson Greatbatch
When you’re doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It’s a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you. – Sean Patrick Thomas
I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match. – Tony Dungy
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil. – Virgil Goode
I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach. – Wayne Gretzky
I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent’s racket so I can decide how I want to hit it. – Sloane Stephens
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is – a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate. – Suzanne Somers
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird. – Simon Newcomb
As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it. – Shani Davis
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training. – Sugar Ray Leonard
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed. – Yaya Toure
When a liquid boils, the temperature has been raised to such a pitch that the evaporating molecules are sufficient in number and speed to lift off the air from the surface of the liquid and push it back en masse. – William Henry Bragg
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? – Steven Wright
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it’s not the size of the bat that gets home runs – it’s the speed with which you can swing it. – Stan Musial
